Hi, On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > $ git verify-pack -v $PACK | grep -v "^chain " | sort -n -k 4 > > I have never used the git verify-pack command, but I'm pretty sure the > "Terminated" string isn't the normal output :-) > > $ git verify-pack -v > .git/objects/pack/pack-1e039b82d8ae53ef5ec3614a3021466663cc70a4 > Terminated I did $ git grep Terminated and came up empty :-) Seriously, I guess this could be some OOM thing. We _should_ handle this more gracefully, but it is possible that some uncatchable condition hits you, such as out-of-stack-space. I'd try running the command either with strace or with gdb, and I'd look at $? after the command returns, to find out what is actually happening. Hth, Dscho