Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

alan <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:
> I am trying to import a subversion repository and have yet to be able to 
> suck down the whole thing without segfaulting.  It is a large repository. 
> Works fine until about the last 10% and then runs out of memory.
> 
> open3: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/bin/git-svn line 2711
> 512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 446
>         main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 314
>         main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 173
> 
> I need to try the "partial download" script and see if that helps.

Which version of git-svn is this?  If it's a public repository I'd
like to have a look.

git-svn memory usage should be bounded by:
	max(max(commit-message size),
	    max(number of files changed per revision))

I'm not sure if the size of the files changed per-revision or if the
size of the deltas is an issue with git-svn.  But if you have a repo
with big files and big changes to them, let me know so I can take a
look.

Can you also try lowering $inc in git-svn to something lower (perhaps
100)? (my $inc = 1000; in the fetch_lib function) and see if that helps
things?  Thanks.

-- 
Eric Wong