On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:32 PM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > > to see the loose ones. If there are a lot, try: > > > > git pack-refs --prune --all > > > > (or just "git gc", which does this). > > This is a daily updated mirror that is also incrementally backed up. I > repack from time to time, but hesitate to do this regularily as each > time I repack the next backup run is "expensive" and I get many small > packs. I did this now anyhow.
Just noting that Jeff didn't suggest a repack; he suggested a pack-refs. This should have little, if any impact on your backup processing, because all it's going to do is rewrite the "packed-refs" file and delete loose refs. It doesn't modify any files under objects/ at all. Bryan
