1. Problem
$ git pull
Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
warning: 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.
When i git pull repository, i see above err message and i cannot pull. This problem root cuase is There are too many dangling commits for git to automatically clean up.
- Dangling commit
- A commit isn’t directly linked to any child commit, branch, tag, or other references.
- Dangling blob
- A change that made it to the staging area/index but never got committed.
2. Solution
You can try under solutions. In my case, i solve this problem use git prune command.
2.1. git prune
$ git prune
2.2. git gc
$ git gc
2.3. git fsck
$ git fsck
reference
- https://medium.com/lynns-dev-blog/git-there-are-too-many-unreachable-loose-objects-c2df601b8001
- https://www.lynnbright.com/git-there-are-too-many-unreachable-loose-objects/