From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory error with git rebase
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA7E710.1020006@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vcrc9kh7.fsf@kalahari.s2.org>
Am 26.10.2011 11:21, schrieb Hannu Koivisto:
> If 'git rebase origin/master' dies with an out of memory error
> (probably due to a few of large binary files in the repository, the
> largest being ~300MB and ~1GB in total in one directory), which
> settings should be tweaked and how to get rid of the problem? I
> tried...
Try 'git rebase -m origin/master'. Without -m, rebase uses
format-patch+am, i.e., assuming there are changes to the binary files
that are to be rebased, a binary patch file would have to be generated
and applied later. This is very likely where git bails out.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-26 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 9:21 Out of memory error with git rebase Hannu Koivisto
2011-10-26 10:55 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-10-31 10:33 ` Hannu Koivisto
2011-10-31 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
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