Re: git gc expanding packed data?

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

It appears that the git installation serving clone requests for
git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git generates lots of unreferenced objects. I
just cloned it and the pack I was sent contains 1383356 objects (can be
determined with 'git show-index < .git/objects/pack/*.idx | wc -l').
However, there are only 978501 actually referenced objects in that
cloned repository ( 'git rev-list --all --objects | wc -l').  That makes
for 404855 useless objects in the cloned repository.

Those objects are not useless.  They are referenced by the remote refs
on the remote side, which are not fetched by default.  If you clone a
mirror of the repository you'll see no unreferenced objects.

Andreas.

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