[aur-general] There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them.

[Johannes Löthberg]

On 01/06, Christian Hesse wrote:
>Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> on Wed, 2016/06/01 12:30:
>> * Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> [2016-06-01 12:19:28 +0200]:
>> > Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> on Wed, 2016/06/01 12:10:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > whenever I push something to the AUR since some days (even a new repo
>> > > with a single commit) I get:
>> > >
>> > > 	error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct
>> > > the root cause and remove gc.log.
>> > > 	Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is
>> > > removed.
>> > >
>> > > 	warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git
>> > > prune' to remove them.
>> > >
>> > > It seems to be harmless (i.e. the package is uploaded anyways), but
>> > > it's kind of confusing - it seems this is something wrong on the
>> > > server, and not my local git repo?
>> >
>> > No, it's your local repository. Just run:
>> >
>> > git prune
>> > git gc
>>
>> I did, and I'm still getting the same after pushing.
>>
>> This happening on a fresh repo with a single commit also wouldn't make
>> any sense FWIW.
>
>I've seen this myself but did not notice it happens over and over again for
>the same repository.
>
>So yes, probably this is an issue with the remote repository. I think it is
>caused by the way we use git for AUR on the server. We do not have separate
>repositories per packages to share some objects.
>

Not sure if this is due to something we disabled in the config due to an 
earlier implementation issue, or if we just have to change the prune 
grace period that git-gc uses.  Either way we'll have to wait for Lukas 
to do it.

-- 
Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
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