Re: Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901071101480.7496@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <c09652430901061436w36c013ep938e9cfba43140c9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > $ git verify-pack -v $PACK | grep -v "^chain " | sort -n -k 4
> 
> I have never used the git verify-pack command, but I'm pretty sure the
> "Terminated" string isn't the normal output :-)
> 
> $ git verify-pack -v
> .git/objects/pack/pack-1e039b82d8ae53ef5ec3614a3021466663cc70a4
> Terminated

I did

	$ git grep Terminated

and came up empty :-)

Seriously, I guess this could be some OOM thing. We _should_ handle this more gracefully, but it is possible that some uncatchable condition hits you, such as out-of-stack-space.

I'd try running the command either with strace or with gdb, and I'd look at $? after the command returns, to find out what is actually happening.

Hth, Dscho