> On 16 Feb 2017, at 23:57, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:36:10PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > >>> Whenever I run "git push --force(-with-lease)" I get a variation of >>> >>> Counting objects: 187, done. >>> Delta compression using up to 12 threads. >>> Compressing objects: 100% (126/126), done. >>> Writing objects: 100% (187/187), 21.35 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. >>> Total 187 (delta 78), reused 71 (delta 20) >>> warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' >>> to remove them. >>> To git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:project.git >>> + 51338ea...b0ebe39 my-branch -> my-branch (forced update) >>> >>> So I'll run "git prune" and, for good measure, "git gc" (which even >>> includes "git prune"?). The first seems to do nothing, the latter does >>> its thing. >>> >> >> It may be that it's the server side that needs to git-prune, and not >> your local side? I'm not really certain but you're doing a push which >> talks to a remote server. > > Yes, certainly the position in the output implies that. These days you > should see: > > remote: warning: There are too many... > > to make it more clear. Perhaps the server is too old to have 860a2ebec > (receive-pack: send auto-gc output over sideband 2, 2016-06-05). Do you know if GHE 2.9.4 has this fix? (Is it OK to ask this here?) Context: http://public-inbox.org/git/9C2F2EA2-0C59-4EA2-8C8E-10228FB82D90@xxxxxxxxx/ Thanks, Lars