On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 05:17:50PM -0800, Boomman wrote: > For me, two "git gc" on a same repo fail to run: > fatal: gc is already running on machine 'WIN-blah' pid 40304 (use > --force if not) > > If you're already colliding on this, then I don't see why you can't > use a normal looking name without a randomized string like > "tmp_garbagecollecting", so that each execution would at least > overwrite the same location. In this case --force could append _1 > probably. git-gc is not the only thing that writes packs. There might be simultaneous packs written by incoming pushes or fetches, for example. -Peff
