I'm having a problem that just started occurring with git-repack not removing the files from $GIT_DIR/objects/*, and therefore not removing the directories, since they're not empty. The command I'm using (as the git user) is this: GIT_DIR=/home/git/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git git-repack -a -d -l This used to work, but then suddenly stopped working. I ran an strace -f -F with this same command, and I don't see any attempt being made to unlink the files in $GIT_DIR/objects/*/, but I do see the rmdir commands failing because the directories are not empty. All of the files in those directories are owned by git:git. I tried upgrading to git 1.4.1, but the same thing happens. The gzipped strace output is almost 5MB in size, certainly not appropriate to attach here. I can make it available from the system's web server if anyone wants to look at it. Please let me know if there's any other information needed. Mark Post - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html