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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [BUG?] gc and impatience
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 07:18:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0k2B5OW9zMrw0jBDDWpufojYDJybXa7jCBdzftNUc7mxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I was pulling in some changes in the morning to find:

 Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. You may also
 run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.

Being my usual impatient self, I opened another prompt and started
merging changes. After the checkout, it started running another gc
(why!?), which I attempted to kill using ^C.

  Counting objects: 449291   x$

It didn't just fail to stop, but it kept writing output making my
prompt completely unusable. I finally just killed the pane. Now, it's
struggling to update-index and update my cache (read: more waiting).

Why is gc not designed for impatient people, and what needs to be done
to change this?

Ram

             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-03  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-03  1:48 Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-08-03  3:53 ` [BUG?] gc and impatience Duy Nguyen
2013-08-03  4:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-03  5:25     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-05 15:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-05 15:54         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-06  2:14   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
     [not found] <1rpxs5pa827iefbyduyodlc7.1375495435629@email.android.com>
2013-08-05 17:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-05 18:45   ` Martin Fick
2013-08-06  2:59     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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