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Subject: Re: something broken just now on git-pull from openbsd to OSX
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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> And even more info:
>
>     $ git-repack -a -d
>     Generating pack...
>     Done counting 2610 objects.
>     Deltifying 2610 objects.
>      100% (2610/2610) done
>     Writing 2610 objects.
>      100% (2610/2610) done
>     Total 2610, written 2610 (delta 1244), reused 2610 (delta 1244)
>     Pack pack-3cd61a256bd8736b13b0356aafff016260c22b80 created.
>     $ git-repack -a -d -f
>     Generating pack...
>     Done counting 2610 objects.
>     Deltifying 2610 objects.
>     Segmentation fault 
>
> Oops!  That's not good.

Indeed it is not good.

First we would need to see who is dying.

git-repack -a -d -f does:

 - list all the objects that need to be packed by running

	git rev-list --objects --all

 - piping that to pack-objects

 - after that remove old ones (because -d is given)

I am suspecting it is either rev-list or pack-objects, but let's
isolate which first.

	git-rev-list --objects --all >/var/tmp/revlist.out

Does this die?  If not

	git-pack-objects pack </var/tmp/revlist.out

does this die?

Once you isolate which, can you bisect to see where it broke in
recent history (assuming it worked ever on OSX)?