From: Fabrice SALVAIRE <fabrice.salvaire@orange•fr>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Why do we need to wait 1s between a git add and commit
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 14:28:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36eec9c1-1d2b-4cd1-a64c-a02936d8a2ae@orange.fr> (raw)
Dear all,
I wrote a Python tool to dump a wiki to a git repository, that does
basically a succession of subprocess calls to git add and commit.
Recently, I discovered this tool doesn't work any longer and that git
commit (2.54 on Fedora 42 / 43) crashes randomly.
I cannot explain this behavior since my code is trivial.
I had the intuition to add a sleep time of 1s just after a git call, and
it solves the issue.
I noticed for some cases that another call to git commit were
successful. For most cases, git fsck and gitk report issues.
It looks like the state of the git repository was not yet completed
before the end of the git subprocess.
Cheers,
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-22 12:28 UTC|newest]
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2026-05-22 12:28 Fabrice SALVAIRE [this message]
2026-05-22 15:12 ` Why do we need to wait 1s between a git add and commit Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-05-22 17:13 ` Fabrice SALVAIRE
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