Needing to git prune

[Chris Mumford]

I just sync'ed up and started rebasing my local branches and got this error:

Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.

See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.

error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause

and remove .git/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.

origin/master has no parent to rebase to

But I got this same error just a few days ago and did a prune then - which got me past this error. Seems like I'm close to some limit. Anybody else encountering this?

[Primiano Tucci]

Never seen this before.

Is there anything interesting in .git/gc.log?

Maybe try running a

git -c pack.threads=6 repack -ad

overnight.

Also, It seem you ended up creating a branch named "origin/master", but I doubt that is related with this problem.

You can remove it by running git update-ref -d refs/heads/origin/master

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[Chris Mumford]

Are you sure about origin/master?

$ git branch -a | grep master

  master

  remotes/android/master

  remotes/desktop/master

  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master

  remotes/origin/master

I'll stop pruning as a prophylactic measure and post the contents of .git/gc.log next time this happens.

[Eric Roman]

I got that error after syncing yesterday too.

I ran the recommended prune command and haven't gotten a warning since.