Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >> I have a mail archive stored with git, in mbox form, and I made some
> >> changes to a few of the files and checked them back in.
> >...
> 
> Ouch.  Running out of memory while deltifying sounds really bad.
> 
> > Oh, and I'm using:
> > 	$ git --version
> > 	git version 1.2.3.g8c2f
> >
> > if that helps or not.
> 
> It doen't, since I do not have 8c2fXXXX commit ;-).

Heh, that's a merge on my tree, sorry.  My tree only has one change to
the git-format-patch.sh script.

858cbfbabe4ede5f5eba32041eb7448319e53e2a is the most recent commit from
your tree.

> I suspect "git push --thin origin" might help, if you are on my
> "master" branch:
> 
>         diff-tree a79a276... (from 2245be3...)
>         Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>         Date:   Mon Feb 20 00:09:41 2006 -0800
> 
>             Add git-push --thin.
> 
>             Maybe we would want to make this default before it graduates to
>             the master branch, but in the meantime to help testing things,
>             this allows you to say "git push --thin destination".
> 
>             Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Will try that.  I eventually gave up on the last push when it ran for 45
minutes at full cpu usage, and X got killed by the OOM killer in the
kernel for some reason...

thanks,

greg k-h