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I'm encountering this Git error while trying to push a local branch. I tried possible ways and followed a few SO posts, but they didn't help.

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

halfer
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Manoj
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  • Isn't this self-explanatory? The remote end is out of disk-space... – kusma Nov 28 '13 at 16:55
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    @kusma This does not help! I need a solution. – Manoj Nov 28 '13 at 16:57
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    why there is a downvote ? – Manoj Nov 29 '13 at 05:36
  • Do you really need the obvious spelled out? If the remote end is out of disk-space, disk space must either be free'd up, or a bigger hard drive must be installed in the remote end. – kusma Nov 29 '13 at 10:04
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    @kusma Before posting it in SO, I obviously knew (from the error log) there is out of disk-space in remote end, and what I was expecting the steps to free up from remote disk space. Can anyone free up some space if he/she is not in group admin? I hope this makes more sense now. – Manoj Nov 29 '13 at 10:18
  • An administrator on the remote end needs to free up space. – kusma Nov 29 '13 at 14:22
  • could this happen if the local machine runs out of memory? I get this error when doing a `git commit blah blah blah` . – kRazzy R Nov 15 '17 at 06:16

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TLDR: run the command:

git gc

That worked for me despite the error seeming like it resides on the server.

Pete B.
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    I am not sure why the down vote, but this command worked for me. I was not out of disk space but was still getting the error. Running this command solved my issue. – Pete B. Jul 24 '19 at 19:37
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    Ironically, I'm getting this error while running git gc! – Andrew Grimm Nov 17 '20 at 05:29
  • This command fixed my problem as well. `git gc` simply clean up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. – Brzozova Sep 13 '21 at 09:14
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I think there is no space left in your remote, check this other post:

Hudson: returned status code 141: fatal: write error: No space left on device

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You're out of drive space. Delete some unused files from anywhere on your machine.

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I got the error having enough space left on device when I tried to git add large files (>1GB). Adding these files to .gitignore solved it. See also this post:

Max file size and max repository size in Git?

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If you are on a remote server, try deleting the files inside /tmp.

cd /tmp
rm -rf *
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