[BUG] auto-repack exits prematurely, locking other processing out

2014-05-23 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi guys! It looks like the periodic auto-repack backgrounds itself when it shouldn't do so. This causes the command it has triggered as a part of to fail: == [~/linux](master)$ git pull --rebase remote: Counting objects:

Re: [BUG] auto-repack exits prematurely, locking other processing out

2014-05-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: Hi guys! It looks like the periodic auto-repack backgrounds itself when it shouldn't do so. This causes the command it has triggered as a part of to fail: Yikes. In the meantime, I think you can turn gc.autodetach off as a workaround, e.g. $

Re: [BUG] auto-repack exits prematurely, locking other processing out

2014-05-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:40:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: It looks like the periodic auto-repack backgrounds itself when it shouldn't do so. This causes the command it has triggered as a part of to fail: Duy, 9f673f94 (gc: config option for

Re: [BUG] auto-repack exits prematurely, locking other processing out

2014-05-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:40:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: It looks like the periodic auto-repack backgrounds itself when it shouldn't do so. This causes the command it has triggered as a part of to

Re: [BUG] auto-repack exits prematurely, locking other processing out

2014-05-23 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Duy, 9f673f94 (gc: config option for running --auto in background, 2014-02-08) turns to be not such a hot idea. Sure, if we kick it off background after doing something heavy, immediately before giving control back to