On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:17:38AM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > On Nov 09 2020, Michal Suchánek wrote: > > > > > I noticed I am running out of disk space, and one repository taking up > > > about 38G. Did git gc --aggressive, and the used space *raised* to 42G, > > > and git would report it does gc after every commit. > > > > Do you have a lot of loose objects? > { for i in .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l > 53392 And in the double-size repository it's doubled, too: { for i in .git/objects/?? ; do ls $i ; done ; } | wc -l 101167