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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:22:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   ARG. git can autopack the repo IN THE BACKGROUND after a git-fetch, so you can have code that does the quite reasonable steps of:
   $ git fetch
   $ tar -cf ../blah.tar .

   and it'll fail, because tar will notice that all the files are moving around because git is actually still rewriting the files

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:37:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     apparently git has only been doing this since 2021.
     I didn't expect this to do this, thus why my shellscripts were intermittently failing whenever git felt like doing a GC

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:39:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the git config option "maintenance.auto" can be set to false to stop this from happening, in case you're in one of those weird situations where this will break everything. like I am

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:46:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Saffron🏳️‍⚧️
     • Katherine Senzee

     @ksenzee @spinach it does warn you! but it only warns you when it happens, which in my case was not until the whole thing had been put in a script in a cronjob

   • Saffron🏳️‍⚧️ (spinach@girlcock.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:46:20 JST Saffron🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone this is the single worst thing i have read about git ever. horrible design decision. just make it block the terminal window until it is DONE

   • Katherine Senzee (ksenzee@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:46:20 JST Katherine Senzee

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     • Saffron🏳️‍⚧️

     @spinach @foone or warn us it's happening, so it's not mysterious behavior we've never heard of.

   • Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:55:59 JST Peter Bindels

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     @foone I'm writing a Git clone and I wasn't aware it would do background stuff. That's not how command line tools normally work.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:55:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Peter Bindels

     @dascandy42 and it's not how git worked for the first 16 years of its existence!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 01:31:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ben Aveling

     @BenAveling the files under .git

   • Ben Aveling (benaveling@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 01:31:18 JST Ben Aveling

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     @foone when you say auto pack the repo, do you mean the files you fetched? Or the files under .git?

   • Owen Beresford (channelowen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 00:53:31 JST Owen Beresford

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     @foone I automate with bash as its faster than node etc;

     do we need to see if there is a git process running? and detect a local git server differently

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 00:53:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Owen Beresford

     @channelOwen I don't have it handy at the moment but if you look in the git-maintenance manpage , it tell you the config option you need to adjust to turn this off