On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 05:18:51PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > During "git gc" the writing objects phase did not update for some > > seconds, but then the percentage counter jumped like from 15% to > > 42%. > [...] > > Is it possible to make this repository public? You can also use "git > fast-export --anonymize" to make a repo with same structure but no > real content (but read the man page about that option first) Try this: -- >8 -- git init repo cd repo # one big blob dd if=/dev/urandom of=big bs=1M count=100 git add big git commit -m big # several small blobs for i in $(seq 10); do echo $i >file git add file git commit -m $i done git gc -- >8 -- It "stalls" at 33%, and then jumps straight to 100%. -Peff