If I clone linus' kernel, delete all the tags, and then run git gc, it ends up expanding into about 5K of unpacked objects. The .git size goes from 473M to 511M. This seems a bit strange no? Shouldn't gcing yield a smaller repo an fewer unpacked refs? If I do this on our internal kernel repo (which has 2Ktags), it gets much more pathological, it expands to about 1M objects and grows to about 7G!!! This seems to happen with all versions which I tested, 1.6.0, 1.7.6 and 1.7.7 Any thoughts? -Martin -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. which is a member of Code Aurora Forum -- 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