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Apparent bug in git-gc

From
Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Sep 15, 2014, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID
<201409152334.s8FNY33M032615@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
I have an unpleasant bug in git-gc:

Git version: 1.8.3.1 Running on: Fedora 19 Gnu/Linux

I have an 11 GB repository. It passes git-fsck (though with a number of dangling objects). But when I run git-gc on it, the file refs/heads/master disappears. Since HEAD points to refs/heads/master, this makes the repository unusable.

What should I do next?
Dale
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