Why does git keep telling me it's "Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance"?
background-process, git, packing
Solution
I found the solution from the second comment you provided, Trengot, thanks. It turns out that I had some dangling blobs, which were in `.git/objects/17` and hence triggering the packing:
$ git fsck
dangling blob d9ff0aeac4aa8b4e0907daed675ebf60278bc977
dangling blob dbff2d073741f9775c815d4a3c623736af224dad
dangling blob e1ffbab1c5b985cd1cd3bc0281075ea2ed80744a
dangling blob fdff59878ccb3a75689f4acca615cfb635288774
This cleaned them up:
$ git gc --prune=now
Be aware, as per Henrik's comment below, this may be a little dangerous. Take care!
Problem
Note: I don't think this is a duplicate of this question, which is talking about a non-background pack which hangs git with a subtly different error message. In one of my git repositories, each time I invoke (for example) `git fetch`, git prints: ``` Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. ``` It appears to print this every time if I do a `git fetch` repeatedly, even when there are no changes and nothing for `git fetch` to do. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It also seems to happen with other network operations, such as `git push` and `git pull`. The command returns back to the prompt instantly with no further output, and I cannot find any git process running on my machine. It seems to happen only with this repository, and only on this machine. `git config -l | grep gc` returns nothing. What can I do to diagnose or fix this problem? ``` $ git --version git version 2.0.1 ``` I am using OS X 10.9.