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From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:23:23 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik2Ms6qjQAaa_H8GGwmTG1fsk+8GR2y7ZmLviY-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=O5SbLRttzR0YwrHVEMz5gxtdTo9Z5C6V1yE1e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Geoff Russell
<geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Shawn,
>
>...
>> You really needed to run:
>>
>>  git repack --max-pack-size=.. -a -d
>>
>> The -d flag tells it to remove the old packs once the new packs
>> are ready, and the -a flag tells it to reconsider every object
>> in the repository, rather than just those that are loose.
>
> Ok, will try.

The repack failed with a "fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed", perhaps I
just need to try a machine with more memory!

I'm still interested in whether clone from a client take note of the
pack.packSizeLimit if I set it
on the server? Or does it use the client value?

Cheers,
Geoff

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31  7:16 Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do? Geoff Russell
2010-08-31 18:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-08-31 22:03   ` Geoff Russell
2010-09-01  1:53     ` Geoff Russell [this message]
2010-09-01  3:02       ` Geoff Russell
2010-09-01 14:38       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-09-06  0:34         ` Geoff Russell

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