From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Stephens Subject: "git gc" doesn't seem to remove loose objects any more Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:52:34 +0000 Message-ID: <808wqhzjl9.fsf@tiny.isode.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 15 13:54:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCCxT-0005s8-QX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:54:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751379AbYLOMwi (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:52:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751337AbYLOMwi (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:52:38 -0500 Received: from rufus.isode.com ([62.3.217.251]:44113 "EHLO rufus.isode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbYLOMwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:52:37 -0500 Received: from tiny.isode.net (shiny.isode.com [62.3.217.250]) by rufus.isode.com (smtp internal) via TCP with SMTP id for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:52:35 +0000 Received: by tiny.isode.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:52:34 +0000 X-Hashcash: 1:20:081215:git@vger.kernel.org::XVjlrcIgxwWhzXod:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000gwg User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I couldn't see a test for this, but perhaps I'm just missing it? brs% git count-objects 161 objects, 1552 kilobytes brs% git gc Counting objects: 80621, done. Compressing objects: 100% (22372/22372), done. Writing objects: 100% (80621/80621), done. Total 80621 (delta 57160), reused 80305 (delta 56884) brs% git count-objects 207 objects, 2048 kilobytes And I see lots of directories under .git/objects which confirms things. I don't think I've changed any relevant configuration. This is with 8befc50c49e8a271fd3cd7fb34258fe88d1dfcad (also whatever version I used before, erm, probably de0db422782ddaf7754ac5b03fdc6dc5de1a9ae4), and possibly earlier versions---I've just started noticing now that the number of loose objects has started causing git gui to complain. (Hmm, I note that git gui reports a larger number of loose objects than git count-objects. Ah, OK, it really is just an approximation, so no surprise.)