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POIs git grep buggy - disable parallel search?
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    copied!<p>If I run a <code>git grep</code> command n times, I get errors about 0.8 * n times.</p> <pre><code>$ git grep foo_bar_search `git rev-list HEAD` -- dir/subdir &gt;/dev/null fatal: unable to read tree (bc9e3369c6d6f027075e794fa11db02af3f8fb38) $ git grep foo_bar_search `git rev-list HEAD` -- dir/subdir &gt;/dev/null fatal: unable to read tree (473a47dd3895b1db09baf4cf9463f4cbd224d5dd) $ git grep foo_bar_search `git rev-list HEAD` -- dir/subdir &gt;/dev/null $ git grep foo_bar_search `git rev-list HEAD` -- dir/subdir &gt;/dev/null fatal: unable to read tree (b917adbfffd1928c8f6ac0f746a4fdfcf2088029) $ git grep foo_bar_search `git rev-list HEAD` -- dir/subdir &gt;/dev/null fatal: unable to read tree (473a47dd3895b1db09baf4cf9463f4cbd224d5dd) </code></pre> <p>What I've tried</p> <ol> <li>run as superuser to exclude any problems with file protections</li> <li><code>git fsck</code> reports nothing bad just a couple of dangling objects</li> <li>cloned the repo, no errors on cloning, but <code>git grep</code> shows the same behavior in the clone again.</li> <li>look at some of the reported SHA1s using <code>git cat-file</code>, seem to be all fine</li> <li>Googled a bit</li> </ol> <p>The most interesting Google hit was: </p> <p><a href="http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg164520.html">http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg164520.html</a></p> <p>The message was just 3 hours old. Well, if they have race conditions in <code>git grep</code>, that could explain everything. So do they do search in parallel on several cores? (I have 4 here.) How could I disable that, short of booting the whole machine with only 1 core? </p> <pre><code>$ git --version git version 1.7.3.4 </code></pre> <p>(That's what came with OpenSUSE 11.4)</p>
 

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