2008/12/15 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:56:10AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:08:34PM +0100, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > >> > To clarify that a bit more: git gc keeps unreachable objects unpacked, >> > so that git prune can drop them. And git gc invokes git prune so that >> > only unreachable objects older than 2 weeks are dropped. > >> To be even more explicit, "git gc" will **unpack** objects that have >> become unreachable and were currently in packs. As a result, the >> amount of disk space used by a git repository can actually go **up** >> dramatically after a "git gc" operation, which could be surprising for >> someone who is running close to full on their filesystem, deletes a >> number of branches from a tracking repository, and then does a "git >> gc" may get a very unpleasant surprise. > > It can also cause things like the "please repack" warning in git gui to > go off. This is especially unhelpful since they tend to tell you to go > and do a gc to resolve the problem. A thought that occurs to me is to add some sort of flag to git count-objects that prints the number of objects older than some interval in a separate field. That way git gui would give less (maybe no) false alarms. -- Mikael Magnusson -- 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
