Git no space left on device

git git-rebase git-pull
Rahul Tapali picture Rahul Tapali · Jan 15, 2013 · Viewed 33.5k times · Source

I did git pull --rebase and I got following error:

 error: file write error (No space left on device)
 fatal: unable to write sha1 file 
 fatal: unpack-objects failed

I have lot of space on my device. Don't know why it is showing this error.

First time I got this error.

Answer

Matt picture Matt · Jan 15, 2013

You're out of drive space. Delete some unused files from anywhere on your machine. After you've done some housecleaning, you may think about running git gc to have git garbage collect your repository; if you've made lots of changes to git's objects recently - like can happen with a rebase - you can reclaim significant data from git itself. After giving git some breathing room (as gc will need a little wiggle room to copy data to new files as it works), git gc will compact your git repository as much as is possible without losing your repository's history.

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