why is my repository generating tmp_pack files

RachelleJanssen January 23, 2015

recently I noticed my repositories were growing in size. my staging branch, which was hosted on another server instead of a subdomein, grew up to 12 GB!!!

I asked the hosting company if they could help to find out what was going. It turned out that 11.4 GB was in the /.git/objects/pack folder.

I couldn't find a straight answer whether I could remove these or not.

but in the end I replaced my entire repository on the server. this time it only used 25 MB.

2 hours later it's already at 2 GB again, the folder generated tmp_pack files every 2-3 minutes and I don't know what they are or why they are created (let alone why they aren't removed). I never had this problem before with local branches

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Seth
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January 23, 2015

This sounds like an under-the-hood git operation. You'll have a better chance of finding someone who knows what's happening on a larger Q&A site, like stackoverflow.com

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Mark de Bont
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March 1, 2016

Having identical behaviour here with Bamboo 5.10.x

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