How often should you use git-gc? The manual page simply says: Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good operating performance. Are there some commands to get some object counts to find out whether it’s time to gc? 10 Answers 10
I’m afraid I couldn’t find anything quite like this particular scenario. I have a git repository with a lot of history: 500+ branches, 500+ tags, going back to mid-2007. It contains ~19,500 commits. We’d like to remove all of the history before Jan 1, 2010, to make it smaller and easier to deal with (we … Read more
I randomly hit this today while trying to run Git garbage collect: $ git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error: failed to run repack How do I deal with this? 10 Answers 10