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From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Subject: Apparent bug in git-gc
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:34:03 -0400
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I have an unpleasant bug in git-gc:

Git version:  1.8.3.1
Running on:  Fedora 19 Gnu/Linux

I have an 11 GB repository.  It passes git-fsck (though with a number
of dangling objects).  But when I run git-gc on it, the file
refs/heads/master disappears.  Since HEAD points to refs/heads/master,
this makes the repository unusable.

What should I do next?

Dale