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Re: git-reflog infinite loop

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 11, 2008, 03:47 UTC
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<20080611034718.GB7198@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:44:50PM +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:
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> In one of my repository, "git gc" will never terminate.
>
> I have traced to the underlying call git-reflog:
>
>    $ git-reflog expire --all
>
> It seems to heat a good amount of heap memory and will keep running using 
> 100% of CPU.
>
> Is that a known issue?

I can't reproduce here, so presumably it is some condition in your repository; can you make a tarball of your .git directory available?

-Peff
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