Re: Git exhausts memory.

[Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com>]

On 5 April 2011 21:13, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems to me that if "git init" creates a $GIT_DIR/info/attributes
>> file by default with a line like "*.gz -delta", then that will disable
>> the memory intensive deltra compression plumbing for those special
>> cases where people need to track gzip archives (similarly another line
>> "*.bz2 -delta" for bzip2 archives and so on). Since these files can't
>> supposedly be compressed much more, I think Git ought to have a
>> default heuristic to not attempt any compression on them.
>
> I was thinking of very similar thing on my ride home. But I selected
> files on size, not extension. With the (hopefully coming soon)
> introduction of pathspec magic specifier [1], we can teach git-attr to
> express "files that have size in a range [a,b]" (either a or b can be
> infinite). The rest is like yours: applying -delta on selected files
> then put such a rule with a default range in default template.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169813/focus=169844

Yeah, makes sense.

I also noticed the following thread regarding big file support. Most
of the details there are related to this issue as well.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170649/focus=170649

Alif