Re: [git-users] Infinite spawning of git status

2014-03-23 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Dale R. Worley wor...@alum.mit.edu From: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org Wild thoughts / just guessing : Any sub-modules in your repo? Could be an accidental circular reference (within the various .gitmodules files) No, I'm definitely not using submodules. Could be a symlink

Re: [git-users] Infinite spawning of git status

2014-03-23 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org Unfortunately, it was set off by a cron job, and I have cron jobs doing Git archiving of large parts of my file system, and there are certainly circular symlinks hidden in various places. Definately worth looking then ;-) I've got a

Re: [git-users] Infinite spawning of git status

2014-03-22 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org Wild thoughts / just guessing : Any sub-modules in your repo? Could be an accidental circular reference (within the various .gitmodules files) No, I'm definitely not using submodules. Could be a symlink somewhere creating a circular ref.