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Re: git fast-export/fast-import *facepalm*

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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
May 27, 2010, 23:03 UTC
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> They're showing up with 'gitk --all'. I've made a backup so I can
>>>> expire the reflog and see if they go away.
>>>
>>> gitk --all shouldn't be showing stuff just because it's in the reflog.
>>>  Does it have a branchname tag next to it?  Have you exit/restarted
>>> gitk or are you just using its refresh button?  The latter doesn't
>>> work very well across branch deletion.
>>>
>>> Avery
>>>
>>
>> The commits do have tags. I'll try deleting them and gc'ing again.
>>
>
> Deleting the tags seemed to do the trick as far as removing the
> detached commits in gitk.
>
> Now git gc seems to be stuck
>
> ~/linux> git --version
> git version 1.7.1
>
> ~/linux> git gc
> Counting objects: 20058 (went away made a coffee, came back still
> stuck at 20058)
>
> I've attached with gdb and have the following trace if its of any use
> (sorry I don't have debug symbols for libz). I've still got the
> debugger attached if anyone wants me to dump out anything else.
>

Looks like its come back now. I guess there was just one object that was taking a while to pack.

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  1. Chris PackhamMay 27, 2010
  2. Shawn O. PearceMay 27, 2010
  3. Chris PackhamMay 27, 2010
  4. Avery PennarunMay 27, 2010
  5. Avery PennarunMay 27, 2010
  6. Chris PackhamMay 27, 2010
  7. Chris PackhamMay 27, 2010
  8. Chris PackhamMay 27, 2010

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