Re: non-smooth progress indication for git fsck and git gc

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 05:18:51PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > During "git gc" the writing objects phase did not update for some
> > seconds, but then the percentage counter jumped like from 15% to
> > 42%.
> [...]
> 
> Is it possible to make this repository public? You can also use "git
> fast-export --anonymize" to make a repo with same structure but no
> real content (but read the man page about that option first)

Try this:

-- >8 --
git init repo
cd repo

# one big blob
dd if=/dev/urandom of=big bs=1M count=100
git add big
git commit -m big

# several small blobs
for i in $(seq 10); do
  echo $i >file
  git add file
  git commit -m $i
done

git gc
-- >8 --

It "stalls" at 33%, and then jumps straight to 100%.

-Peff