Re: git interactive rebase bug?

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2015, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xoajj5HL1Tn=CBNg72Po1Jy8yrUBvoD=c=3yYvLCRCGuA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq37xopjwh.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've been experiencing a very annoying bug when performing interactive
>> rebases. The rebase process will stall after I close the editor, and I
>> have to kill the process and then restart the rebase using "git rebase
>> --continue"
>>
>> I am not sure how to debug this further. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> First, I'd try "pstree" ("pstree -p" to get pid) to see if your editor is really dead.
>
> Then, "strace -p" on the git process, to see if it's doing some system
> calls while hanged, or if it's hanged on a particular syscall.
> Hopefully, this will yield some "open" calls and tell you which files
> Git is currently working with.
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

And of course now I can't get it to fail at all. It did hang one time for about 15-20 seconds and then worked, and suddenly no longer has issues... I'll try to remember these two tricks incase it does hang again and I'll report what I find.

Thanks, Jake