Re: Can a git push over ssh trigger a gc/repack? Diagnosing pack explosion

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>

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Nov 21, 2013, 21:57 UTC

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>>  - if it's receiving from many pushers, it races with itself; needs
>> some lock or back-off mechanism
>
> Surely.
>
> I think these should help:
>
>     64a99eb4 (gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given, 2013-08-08)
>     4c5baf02 (gc: remove gc.pid file at end of execution, 2013-10-16)
>
> They should be in the upcoming v1.8.5.

Ah, great to hear. For the record, this hit me on git 1.7.1, current on RHEL6.

thanks!

m

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