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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto"
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:47:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113184718.GA5647@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)

After rebasing, we call "gc --auto" to clean up if we
created a lot of loose objects. However, we do so inside an
&&-chain. If "gc --auto" fails (e.g., because a previous
background gc blocked us by leaving "gc.log" in place),
then:

  1. We will fail to clean up the state directory, leaving
     the user stuck in the rebase forever (even "git am
     --abort" doesn't work, because it calls "gc --auto"!).

  2. In some cases, we may return a bogus exit code from
     rebase, indicating failure when everything except the
     auto-gc succeeded.

We can fix this by ignoring the exit code of "gc --auto".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
This bit me just now. The real blocker was "you have too many loose
objects, run 'git prune'" left in the gc.log file.

It looks like this is the only "gc --auto" we call from a shell script,
and all of the C callers already ignore the exit code. So no other spots
need a similar fix.

 git-rebase.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index af7ba5f..cf60c43 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ You can run "git stash pop" or "git stash drop" at any time.
 
 finish_rebase () {
 	apply_autostash &&
-	git gc --auto &&
+	{ git gc --auto || true; } &&
 	rm -rf "$state_dir"
 }
 
-- 
2.7.0.242.gdeece69

             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13 18:47 Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-13 18:50 ` [PATCH] rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto" Jeff King
2016-01-13 19:40 ` Rodrigo Campos
2016-01-13 20:12   ` Jeff King

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