merge: release pack files before garbage-collecting

Before auto-gc'ing, we need to make sure that the pack files are
released in case they need to be repacked and garbage-collected.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index 15bf95b3ac6c54727992103b1943515a1da32ff4..b98a3489bf24c0726b3847704e7ec0b658a79e51 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ static void finish(struct commit *head_commit,
                         * We ignore errors in 'gc --auto', since the
                         * user should see them.
                         */
+                       close_all_packs();
                        run_command_v_opt(argv_gc_auto, RUN_GIT_CMD);
                }
        }