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Some build machines started consistently failing to fetch updated source using "repo sync", with error error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root cause and remove /build/.repo/projects/tools/git.git/gc.log. Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed. warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them. The cause takes some time to describe. In v2.0.0-rc0~145^2 (gc: config option for running --auto in background, 2014-02-08), "git gc --auto" learned to run in the background instead of blocking the invoking command. In this mode, it closed stderr to avoid interleaving output with any subsequent commands, causing warnings like the above to be swallowed; v2.6.3~24^2 (gc: save log from daemonized gc --auto and print it next time, 2015-09-19) addressed that by storing any diagnostic output in .git/gc.log and allowing the next "git gc --auto" run to print it. To avoid wasteful repeated fruitless gcs, when gc.log is present, the subsequent "gc --auto" would die after printing its contents. Most git commands, such as "git fetch", ignore the exit status from "git gc --auto" so all is well at this point: the user gets to see the error message, and the fetch succeeds, without a wasteful additional attempt at an automatic gc. External tools like repo[1], though, do care about the exit status from "git gc --auto". In non-daemonized mode, the exit status is straightforward: if there is an error, it is nonzero, but after a warning like the above, the status is zero. The daemonized mode, as a side effect of the other properties provided, offers a very strange exit code convention: - if no housekeeping was required, the exit status is 0 - the first real run, after forking into the background, returns exit status 0 unconditionally. The parent process has no way to know whether gc will succeed. - if there is any diagnostic output in gc.log, subsequent runs return a nonzero exit status to indicate that gc was not triggered. There's nothing for the calling program to act on on the basis of that error. Use status 0 consistently instead, to indicate that we decided not to run a gc (just like if no housekeeping was required). This way, repo and similar tools can get the benefit of the same behavior as tools like "git fetch" that ignore the exit status from gc --auto. Once the period of time described by gc.pruneExpire elapses, the unreachable loose objects will be removed by "git gc --auto" automatically. [1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/10598/ Reported-by: Andrii Dehtiarov <adehtiarov@google.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks