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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:43:27 +0100
From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: git gc ineffective
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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