Re: git fast-export/fast-import *facepalm*

[Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> They're showing up with 'gitk --all'. I've made a backup so I can
>>> expire the reflog and see if they go away.
>>
>> gitk --all shouldn't be showing stuff just because it's in the reflog.
>>  Does it have a branchname tag next to it?  Have you exit/restarted
>> gitk or are you just using its refresh button?  The latter doesn't
>> work very well across branch deletion.
>>
>> Avery
>>
>
> The commits do have tags. I'll try deleting them and gc'ing again.
>

Deleting the tags seemed to do the trick as far as removing the
detached commits in gitk.

Now git gc seems to be stuck

~/linux> git --version
git version 1.7.1

~/linux> git gc
Counting objects: 20058 (went away made a coffee, came back still
stuck at 20058)

I've attached with gdb and have the following trace if its of any use
(sorry I don't have debug symbols for libz). I've still got the
debugger attached if anyone wants me to dump out anything else.

[Switching to Thread 0xb759e6c0 (LWP 7731)]
0xb7898685 in ?? () from /lib/libz.so.1

(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7898685 in ?? () from /lib/libz.so.1
#1  0xb7898f99 in ?? () from /lib/libz.so.1
#2  0xb7895ccc in ?? () from /lib/libz.so.1
#3  0xb7895ff8 in deflate () from /lib/libz.so.1
#4  0x080f5ade in write_loose_object (sha1=<value optimized out>,
hdr=<value optimized out>, hdrlen=<value optimized out>,
buf=0x8248570, len=1170, mtime=1274994118) at sha1_file.c:2314
#5  0x080f6c09 in force_object_loose (sha1=0xb64ed204
"»²D\v\030\005ªn\fØÂ\026\201\037EªÞãc{²JõØ`º\214\020IvæÐ`Æ0\2113\222ÿ»²R\rdZ;#q\f?\001ü\201#ZXr·»²U¯Jl²\to\022¬³\004\035\215Õd0|z»²[çÝþaD2Ê\206'ºL¾y\037WÕi»²^©§Ê\024H\025\003\200\006?\003L=\001¯?²dòäÒ\223Úc\234\202\224ÍfcpOì8?l\0226\021~óxTç¼y.iN¾¡\036»²\212·Y\227\211t\v\"3
\200]\"®û\227õ3»²¢\024Té«>\212.¡a@b'Ü[Ò=4"..., mtime=1274994118) at
sha1_file.c:2377
#6  0x08089d8d in get_object_list (ac=<value optimized out>, av=<value
optimized out>) at builtin/pack-objects.c:2050
#7  0x0808c4e6 in cmd_pack_objects (argc=10, argv=0xbfb43118,
prefix=0x0) at builtin/pack-objects.c:2317
#8  0x0804b42b in handle_internal_command (argc=<value optimized out>,
argv=<value optimized out>) at git.c:260
#9  0x0804b5fe in main (argc=10, argv=0xbfb43118) at git.c:458