On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Whenever I run "git push --force(-with-lease)" I get a variation of > > Counting objects: 187, done. > Delta compression using up to 12 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (126/126), done. > Writing objects: 100% (187/187), 21.35 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. > Total 187 (delta 78), reused 71 (delta 20) > warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' > to remove them. > To g...@git.company.com:project.git > + 51338ea...b0ebe39 my-branch -> my-branch (forced update) > > So I'll run "git prune" and, for good measure, "git gc" (which even > includes "git prune"?). The first seems to do nothing, the latter does > its thing. >
It may be that it's the server side that needs to git-prune, and not your local side? I'm not really certain but you're doing a push which talks to a remote server. Thanks, Jake > And then the next time (which could be a few minutes later) I get the > same warning. My branches aren't that big, the largest ever had 40-ish > commits. So abandoning a few dozen commits should not lead to this > warning, I would think. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Cheers, > Hilco
