From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto"
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:12:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113201238.GA6978@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113194011.GD20764@sdfg.com.ar>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:40:11PM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:47:18PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > 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"!).
>
> Just curious, but do you mean "git rebase --abort" ?
Yeah, sorry, I did mean "git rebase --abort".
-Peff
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-13 18:47 [PATCH] rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto" Jeff King
2016-01-13 18:50 ` Jeff King
2016-01-13 19:40 ` Rodrigo Campos
2016-01-13 20:12 ` Jeff King [this message]
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