On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> if you need a chuckle, like me, you might appreciate this story: in one of >> my repositories, "git gc" dies with >> >> unable to open object pack directory: ...: Too many open files >> >> turns out that there are a whopping 1088 packs in that repository... > > Isn't it a more serious problem than a mere chuckle? How would one > recover from such a situation (other than "mv .git/objects/pack-*; > for p in pack-*.pack; do git unpack-objects <$p; done")? I guess if you have root access, you could increase your file ulimit (-n) temporarily and then repack. Of course that's not actually addressing the root cause of the problem. Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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