----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Andrew Martin" <amartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:34:12 PM > Subject: Re: git object-count differs between clones > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:22:08AM -0600, Andrew Martin wrote: > > > Thanks for the clarification. I now ran "git repack -A" followed by > > "git gc --prune=now", however I am still seeing the same number of objects. > > What > > else can I try to successfully mark these and unreachable and garbage > > collect them? > > That should clear out any unreachable objects. Are we sure that the > objects in question are, in fact, unreachable? > > Try: > > git rev-list --objects --all --reflog | wc -l > > which should give a count of reachable objects. I'd expect that to line > up with that "git count-objects -v" reports after having run your gc > above. > > In your original email, the discrepancy was between your "original" > repository and the one that had round-tripped to a clone. Is it possible > there are refs in the original that did not get pushed? Try comparing > "git for-each-ref" in each repository. > > We also consider objects in the index to be reachable for packing. Could > your original perhaps have some uncommitted objects mentioned in the > index? > > -Peff > Jeff, This did it - those commits were still referenced by some remotes: $ git for-each-ref 945c3a60dfb4d9ab774708d19f7aa74dd545db90 commit refs/heads/master 945c3a60dfb4d9ab774708d19f7aa74dd545db90 commit refs/remotes/origin/brancha 8b331e4bb42f6291c33eb0847c4481407e3d753c commit refs/remotes/origin/branchb I removed them: $ git update-ref -d refs/remotes/origin/brancha $ git update-ref -d refs/remotes/origin/branchb And then I was able to garbage collect and get the expected object count: $ git reflog expire --expire=now --expire-unreachable=now --all $ git gc --prune=now Thanks for the help! Andrew -- 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