Hello,
I'm currently hitting an issue trying to garbage collect a git repo in
case of low disk space.
After running "git gc" a bunch of times I tried to clean up more and
more space on the disk not realizing that when "git gc" fails it just
leaves the tmp_pack file there.
D:\Platform>git gc
...blah...
fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_FG1inp' write error. Out
of diskspace
fatal: failed to run repack
D:\Platform>git gc
...blah...
fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_IFvamY' write error. Out
of diskspace
fatal: failed to run repack
D:\Platform>git gc
...blah...
fatal: sha1 file '.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_khHCC9' write error. Out
of diskspace
fatal: failed to run repack
D:\Platform>dir .git\objects\pack\tmp*
Directory of D:\Platform\.git\objects\pack
12/18/2024 05:33 PM 7,367,032,832 tmp_pack_FG1inp
12/18/2024 05:35 PM 3,787,194,368 tmp_pack_IFvamY
12/18/2024 05:39 PM 7,713,062,912 tmp_pack_khHCC9
09/11/2024 11:33 AM 3,068,002,304 tmp_pack_XTVFUi
4 File(s) 21,935,292,416 bytes
0 Dir(s) 339,968 bytes free
I believe that before trying to write *anything* to disk "git gc"
should try to take exclusive handles on these and wipe them, ideally
by default. The total size of these tmp* files is multiple times
larger than the repo I'm trying to compact, so if the command just did
this pre-cleaning I'd not have hit this problem once I cleaned enough
disk space.
Please let me know your thoughts on this.
-Vitaly
