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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
To: Jose Nobile <jose.nobile@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG Report. Why GIT commit need 30GB of memory for a commit?
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:48:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5031CFBF.903@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ69RUQ++RpfgDmPh2k6n1e61xX9OZ_tvG5K7Q4CXvh7i2cj6w@mail.gmail.com>

Jose Nobile skrev 2012-08-20 07.12:
> I have a big repository, around 80GB
> git --version
> #git version 1.7.12
> git init .
> #Initialized empty Git repository in /reponame/.git/
> git add -A .
>
> git commmit -m "Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44"
> #fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 32220431361 bytes)
> #[master (root-commit) 8053f0d] Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44
>
>   Why GIT need 30GB of memory for a commit?

It may be trying to compute a commit summary. Add -q to avoid the work.

-- robin

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20  5:12 BUG Report. Why GIT commit need 30GB of memory for a commit? Jose Nobile
2012-08-20  5:48 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]

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