I have what appears to be a fairly straightforward rebase operation and I can't figure out why it seems to effectively hang 'git rebase'.
I have a handful of commits that I made last summer and haven't touched since. I'm trying to rebase them against latest on upstream.
git status
On branch git_enhancements
Your branch and 'origin/smb' have diverged,
and have 4 and 4665 different commits each, respectively.
(use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)
If at this moment I type "git rebase" it will print out
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
And then nothing will happen for approximately 30 minutes, and then it will complete.
If I instead type "git rebase --onto @{u} HEAD~4" it completes immediately.
I've narrowed it down to this line in git-rebase--am (approx. line 65)
git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index --cherry-pick --right-only \
--src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/ --no-renames --no-cover-letter \
"$revisions" ${restrict_revision+^$restrict_revision} \
>"$GIT_DIR/rebased-patches"
Which is turned into this in my particular case
git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index --cherry-pick --right-only --src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/ --no-renames --no-cover-letter 451da4975b25797fe54cd11e4796bbd3ee0911ce...ea3cf673d0e76504738bf130d48148d5b96cc406
If I time just that command I get
real 32m10.324s
user 26m21.296s
sys 0m28.994s
If I change the triple do to a double dot I get
real 0m4.276s
user 0m0.096s
sys 0m0.022s
Which is much more in line with how long I think the command should take.
The triple dot is coming from just earlier in the file here
if test -z "$rebase_root"
# this is now equivalent to ! -z "$upstream"
then
revisions=$upstream...$orig_head
else
revisions=$onto...$orig_head
fi
which seems to have been in place for 2+ years.
I'm getting the same output with both the triple and double dot for my specific case, but I have no idea if that change makes sense for all cases or not. Any guidance?
Thanks much,
-Andrew
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