Hi, I was pulling in some changes in the morning to find: Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. You may also run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information. Being my usual impatient self, I opened another prompt and started merging changes. After the checkout, it started running another gc (why!?), which I attempted to kill using ^C. Counting objects: 449291 x$ It didn't just fail to stop, but it kept writing output making my prompt completely unusable. I finally just killed the pane. Now, it's struggling to update-index and update my cache (read: more waiting). Why is gc not designed for impatient people, and what needs to be done to change this? Ram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html