Re: git-reflog infinite loop

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Jeff King a écrit :
> I can't reproduce here, so presumably it is some condition in your
> repository; can you make a tarball of your .git directory available?

Ok, mystery solved.

The problem was that the repository had been imported using git-svn and 
contained something like 86000 reflog entries in 
.git/logs/refs/remotes/pre/trunk.

Using the debugger I have seen that the loop was not endless... but very 
slow as there was many many reflog to process. Don't know if this is 
expected or not though.

To fix that I have launched:

    $ git-reflog expire --expire=10 --all

It has removed all the old reflogs dating from the git-svn initial 
import lowering the number of enties in .git/logs/refs/remotes/pre/trunk 
to 0 :)

git gc is now working like a charm!

Pascal.

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