Re: Cleaning up files reported by size-garbage

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:55:29AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> Running git count-objects -v reports garbage files:
> 
> $ git count-objects -v
> warning: garbage found: ./objects/pack/tmp_pack_XSv8MO
> warning: garbage found: ./objects/pack/tmp_pack_2uOuMg
> warning: garbage found: ./objects/pack/tmp_pack_KzP1ja
> count: 19
> size: 84
> in-pack: 172456
> packs: 6
> size-pack: 63907
> prune-packable: 0
> garbage: 3
> size-garbage: 1911
> 
> Is there a way to tell git to clean those up? I'm not finding anything 
> and would rather avoid having to parse stderr in these cases.

I think that git-gc will clean them up (via git-prune). It will also
check that their mtimes are older than the expiration time, which avoids
accidentally cleaning up the pack for an incoming fetch or push.

The default gc expiration time is 2 weeks, though, so you might want
something like:

  git gc --prune=5.minutes.ago

if you're trying to get rid of them immediately. Likewise use git-prune
directly if you don't want to incur the cost of a full gc/repack.

-Peff