What does “Auto packing the repository for optimum performance” mean?

Question

I\'m having a problem with my git repo. For the last couple of days whenever I do a push to the server I get this message: \"Auto packing the repository for optimum performa

Answer 1

Git is running git-repack, which packs many objects(=files, commits and trees) into one pack file. Git does this sometimes, when a heuristic says that there can be space saved (a pack file contains compressed object deltas, while each file in the objects/ directory contains the compressed full file content)