Re: git name-rev looks at refs/notes, refs/svn/map: stack overflow

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 12:31:31PM +0100, Sebastiaan Dammann wrote:

> The destructive workaround at the moment is to delete the refs, then
> run an aggressive gc:
> git update-ref -d refs/notes/commits
> git update-ref -d refs/svn/map
> git gc --prune=all --aggressive

If the issue is just traversing from those refs, you shouldn't need to
do a "gc". In fact, you should be able to use the "--refs" option to
name-rev to avoid them without deleting them.

All of that's obviously a workaround, though. The real issue is the
stack exhaustion.

> I hope to hear your view on this. Is this an (confirmed) issue with
> git? Are there beside the workaround I mentioned, any other
> workarounds?

Yes, this is well known. It's covered in the test suite (unfortunately
still failing, of course) since 31625b34c0 (t6120: test describe and
name-rev with deep repos, 2017-09-07).

There was a proposed fix recently in:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20190919214712.7348-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com/

but it doesn't seem to have been picked up. I'm not sure what the
current status is.

-Peff