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Context - I exclusively use graphite CLI (no git) and recently I have been getting this message when I commit:

See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
warning: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause
and remove .git/gc.log
Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed.

warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them.

I ignored it while I was trying to get some work out. This morning, I was working on a stack, submitted it (

gt ss

) and after that I tried to switch to a different branch (

gt bco

) but none of the branches I'd created in the approx the last week showed in

gt bco

.

gt bco branch_name

returned

ERROR: Could not find branch branch_name

. The ones I had pushed I could recover with

gt downstack get branch_name

. The ones i hadn't yet pushed to remote I could see in

git branch

but haven't been able to get them into graphite, Even after pushing to remote git,

gt branch track

returns

ERROR: Could not find branch branch_name.

even though I can checkout the branch with git with

git checkout branch_name

ah that's so weird, sorry this is happening! will be a question for @Jacob Gold when he's back, sounds like the graphite metadata in your repo might have gotten messed up

did you run

git prune

? sounds like your git garbage collection is behind

Sorry, totally missed these replies! Looking at the error message it does seem like something is wrong with my garbage collection. I have now run git prune, but I hadn't before this. Seems like probably something off with my local setup! Everything has been fine since this one-off issue. Will let you know if happens again! The strange part that I thought was worth mentioning was when

gt branch track

returned

ERROR: Could not find branch branch_name.

even though I can checkout the branch with git with

git checkout branch_name

.