From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Leaving large binaries out of the packfile
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:04:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100610180457.GO14847@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C108556.8040102@workspacewhiz.com>
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> wrote:
> Sometimes, 'git gc' runs out of memory. I have to discover which file
> is causing the problem, so I can add it to .gitattributes with a
> '-delta' flag. Mostly, though, the repacking takes forever, and I dread
> running the operation.
If you have the list of big objects, you can put them into their
own pack file manually. Feed their SHA-1 names on stdin to git
pack-objects, and save the resulting pack under .git/objects/pack.
Assuming the pack was called pack-DEADC0FFEE.pack, create a file
called pack-DEADC0FFEE.keep in the same directory. This will stop
Git from trying to repack the contents of that pack file.
Now run `git gc` to remove those huge objects from the pack file
that contains all of the other stuff.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-10 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 6:25 Leaving large binaries out of the packfile Joshua Jensen
2010-06-10 18:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-06-11 15:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-11 16:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-06-24 6:32 ` Joshua Jensen
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