From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:27:19 -0800 Message-ID: <20060301232719.GA22068@kroah.com> References: <20060301220802.GA18250@kroah.com> <20060301220840.GB18250@kroah.com> <7v8xrtepje.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 02 00:27:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEaj0-0001li-Aq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:27:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751125AbWCAX1Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:27:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751936AbWCAX1P (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:27:15 -0500 Received: from dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.40.174]:53412 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751125AbWCAX1P (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:27:15 -0500 Received: from press.kroah.org ([192.168.0.25] helo=localhost) by aria.kroah.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1FEaio-00059X-B4; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:27:06 -0800 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8xrtepje.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Greg KH 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 > 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 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