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Re: Safe to interrupt »git gc --auto«?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2014, 20:50 UTC
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Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> I couldn't find this answered in the documentation: if, instead of
> exiting right away, a »git gc --auto« actually commences its housekeeping
> tasks, is it safe to interrupt (C-c, SIGINT) the original git invocation
> at this point, or might this cause any inconsistencies, data loss,
[...]
Heh.

If gc --auto happens in the middle of e.g. a rebase, then it's possible that there were more commits that were supposed to happen later. You'd need to run 'git rebase --continue' after interrupting the gc in that case.

Interruption should never cause data loss, and as much as possible commands should finish their work before running gc --auto. Please let us know if some command is violating that.

Thanks, Jonathan

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