Re: git-shortlog hangs on bare repo without --bare option

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:40:52PM +0200, Ren?? Scharfe wrote:

Garry Dolley schrieb:

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I didn't see this happen with git 1.5.x, but if you do git-shortlog on a bare 
repo, without specifying --bare, the command will seemingly hang indefinitely.

FWIW, I tried git 1.5.0 and it hangs, too.  Which exact version did work
for you?  Could you, based on it, bisect the commit that introduced this
behaviour?

I just tried it with 1.5.6.2, and it hung.  Unfortunately, I had
several versions of git inside my ~/src as I upgraded over the
months, and just last week I decided to blow away the old ones, so I
don't know what version it was that I saw this work. :(

Either way, it's too big a deal, I just wanted to point out what I
saw.

If it helps, this is the last few lines of strace before it hangs:

stat(".git", 0x7fff6e44dd90)            = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(".git/config", O_RDONLY)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
pipe([3, 4])                            = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f7a6642d790) = 12674
dup2(3, 0)                              = 0
close(3)                                = 0
close(4)                                = 0
select(1, [0], NULL, [0], NULL

So looks like it is waiting to be fed some input?  It's hungry :)

As a workaround, you can use "git log | git shortlog".

Also, 'git --bare shortlog' works too.

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