From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Wong Subject: Re: Git Subversion problem Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:54:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20070125095430.GA24742@localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: alan X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 25 10:54:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HA1JW-0001GW-5L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:54:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965748AbXAYJyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:54:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965747AbXAYJyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:54:33 -0500 Received: from hand.yhbt.net ([66.150.188.102]:44941 "EHLO hand.yhbt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965748AbXAYJyc (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:54:32 -0500 Received: from hand.yhbt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hand.yhbt.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C83677DC094; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:54:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by hand.yhbt.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:54:30 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: alan wrote: > I think I tracked down where my problem with using Git to pull subversion > repositories came from. > > It seems that if the repository has a file larger than what will fit in > memory, it does not react well. (Yes, I know that you should not check in > huge data files into a repository, but accidents happen and Subversion > does not make it easy to remove them.) > > I can work around the problem at the moment, but it may be something that > the person who maintains that chunk of git may want to look at. Which version of git-svn are you using? Can you try git-svn from version 1.4.4.4 of git and see if that problem can be reproduced? The new delta fetching code in the latest git.git master may try to store the entire file in memory when receiving it over the network. -- Eric Wong