Why does git keep telling me it's “Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance”?

Question

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 sub

Answer 1

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!