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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:35:06 -0800
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:27:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 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...

Nice, this worked!

Now what's the odds that when I pull from the server to another box
these same objects, the server will have the same problem as git-push
did?

will go try that now...

thanks,

greg k-h