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When running git gc, I keep seeing this error:
rm: cannot unlink 'pack-30b1ff2[reset of hash].pack': Permission denied What can/should I do about this error?
Update
Sorry, I should have provided more info. Yes, I have tried a reboot. In fact,reboots have fixed gc issues for me before.
I only noticed this issue because when I open Git Gui, it prompts me now and then to compress the database. I eventually noticed that after a couple of times opening Git Gui that it kept prompting me, even though I clicked Yes, and it came back "successful".
So then I tried running it with Git EXT's Settings - Git maintenance - Compress git database command. This command told me that there was an error (red light in Git EXT whereas there was a green light in Git Gui).
The error I posted above however was from running git gc straight from git bash.
Should I schedule a disk scan? Could bad sectors be causing this? I was hoping this would be a quick answer :(
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The Bash permission denied error indicates you are trying to execute a file which you do not have permission to run. To fix this issue, use the chmod u+x command to give yourself permissions. If you cannot use this command, you may need to contact your system administrator to get access to a file.
See gc. auto below for how to disable this behavior. Running git gc manually should only be needed when adding objects to a repository without regularly running such porcelain commands, to do a one-off repository optimization, or e.g. to clean up a suboptimal mass-import.
The git gc command is a repository maintenance command. The "gc" stands for garbage collection. Executing git gc is literally telling Git to clean up the mess it's made in the current repository. Garbage collection is a concept that originates from interpreted programming languages which do dynamic memory allocation.
git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all removes all references of unreachable commits in reflog . git gc --prune=now removes the commits themselves. Attention: Only using git gc --prune=now will not work since those commits are still referenced in the reflog. Therefore, clearing the reflog is mandatory.
"Permission denied" on Windows is often caused by a lock from a running process. It's probable that there is a stalled Git EXT thread opened the pack file.
Try to do the git gc in safe mode.
Another option is to clone the repository in a new place and delete the old one.
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In my case it was TortoiseGit. To solve the problem I opened TortoiseGit Settings->Icon Overlays and set the Status cache to "None". Now the process TGitCache ended, so that all objects are "free" to be processed by git gc.
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