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git-reflog infinite loop

From
Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date
Jun 10, 2008, 17:44 UTC
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<484EBD92.8040603@obry.net>
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?

Thanks, Pascal.

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