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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:24:43 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
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Subject: Re: error: failed to run repack
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Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I keep seeing the following in my logs for multiple lists:
> 
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: and remove path/to/repo.git/git/0.git/gc.log.
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed.
> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: fatal: Failed to write bitmap index. Packfile doesn't have full closure (object 817390f628f74a55c627f1ddab8a44aa029753a0 is missing)

Do you have a path/to/repo.git/git/0.git/objects/info/alternates ?

Bitmaps won't work when packing a repo with alternates
In other words, does 817390f628f74a55c627f1ddab8a44aa029753a0
exist in your 0.git, or somewhere else?

The normal epoch repos (git/[0-9]+.git) aren't created with alternates
by default; instead all.git uses git/[0-9]+.git as alternates.

> timestamp public-inbox-watch[PID]: error: failed to run repack
> 
> Running 'git-fsck -full' in path/to/repo.git/git/0.git doesn't report any issues.
> 
> I imported my archives using scripts/import_vger_from_mbox.
> 
> Any clue? Also is it safe to attempt a manual git-gc?

You might have the same result.  You can probably disable bitmaps
in all.git/config and set it in a git repo that does have full
closure.