From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: [BUG?] gc and impatience Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 07:18:20 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 03 03:49:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Qxv-00070D-4B for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Aug 2013 03:49:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754404Ab3HCBtD (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:49:03 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com ([209.85.214.172]:34120 "EHLO mail-ob0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754216Ab3HCBtB (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:49:01 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f172.google.com with SMTP id er7so2448104obc.3 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:49:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Ak5zL+KtgLXafxnKtsATaL8BofVBQMx1qD681lQzmyE=; b=rtUZiOtK7jLhEmRoo3wytwsYrw0dOM7cHN+F+ZT9B2yyzceLKatzey8ePFMxDDC1iB OAIbXICVeMW+J01jZD5A59QpAvu13Oxuw9zQ+YCayTlReHoVG+aw8ggvtEj5SF66FIjr Pz3fw0DuFv3cfRPRCkntsYb+R90mSj4bDo8uWkilv077GnScRuDyWGNjGQ6vRDlXqyLx 1mZMaN7/NRxh60eY/kwGbTnLQOozVlA6quDA12HU1ge0208VT0VHBfqDKczrYaWFzod1 zvNwZbP6qf9PIBMUYgTz+5rv9KVxMJ8DKR4hg0ewwr0A1U4xytzffXhuEKU+lTINzaNm +3KQ== X-Received: by 10.50.134.9 with SMTP id pg9mr164849igb.29.1375494540603; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.37.130 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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