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Minor cosmetic defect in git-pack-objects output

From
Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Date
Mar 29, 2011, 10:10 UTC
Message-ID
<20110329121040.de22bd56.ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Hi,

in some cases, on git-pack-objects failure, there is a small defect in the output, see:

# git gc --aggressive Counting objects: 1954118, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory02) Compressing objects: 100% (1936802/1936802), done. Writing objects: 100% (1954118/1954118), done. Total 1954118 (delta 1618716), reused 0 (delta 0)

The defect is here:
warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory02)
                                        ^^^
the trailing chars are from the replaced line which was ending in
1936802)
AFAICS this is basically what is happening:
#include "git-compat-util.h"
fprintf(stderr, "Compressing objects:  15% (296661/1936802)\r");
                 warning("suboptimal pack - out of memory");

I can think to a dumb workaround for this particular path but maybe there are other places when this can happen as well.

Anyway it is not a big deal, but since I noticed it I wanted to report that.

Regards,
   Antonio
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