command failed: git gc

[ameenross]

Getting this error. Manually running git gc afterwards works. However, I don't really need the repo to be garbage collected (waste of CPU cycles in my usage scenario). Is there a CLI option to skip it?

[svigerske]

I'm also getting this message. In verbose mode, I get the following after the git fetch run

Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
Checked out HEAD:
  file:///***./trunk r374
Running command: git branch -l --no-color
* master
Running command: git branch -r --no-color
  svn/trunk
Running command: git config --local --get user.name
Running command: git config --local --get user.email
Running command: git checkout -f master
Already on 'master'
Running command: git gc
fatal: gc is already running on machine 'mangosteen' pid 13575 (use --force if not)
command failed:
git gc

And it is true that there is a git gc running under that pid. It looks that git gc is run twice by svn2git and the first one was still running in the background when the second one is started.

[dccarson]

Any chance of a some sort of workaround for this?

[svigerske]

I worked around this by disabling auto-run of garbage collect before using svn2git:

git config --global gc.auto 0

(and then reenable it after it git config --global --unset gc.auto)

[dccarson]

I've used svn2git successfully on several other repos. It only fails on one repo in my list, but it always fails on that one.

Thanks for the simple solution. I'll give it a try.

[dmoebius]

Got the same error, too, because of the circumstances @svigerske described.
IMHO it would be best to remove this last step of running "git gc", instead just print a message at the end of the migration saying that it would be best for the user to run "git gc" now, manually.

[dmoebius]

btw. this issue seems to be a duplicate of #180