Re: out of memory error with git push and pull

[Qingning Huo <qingninghuo@gmail.com>]

Hi Joey,

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Qingning Huo wrote:
>> I tried to use git to manage my digital photos but encountered some
>> problems. The typical file sizes are hundreds of KB or a few MB. In
>> total, about 15GB data in about 10,000 files. My intention is to get
>> them into a git repository and cloned into a few computers. Probably I
>> will make some occasionally changes like editing and deleting. But I
>> think most of the files would stay at version one.
>
> I try not to mention git-annex too much here, but this is a perfect
> use-case for it. http://git-annex.branchable.com/
>
> Well, it would be more perfect if you had enough data in your repo that
> you didn't necessarily want to clone it all to every computer. Like so:
>
> # git annex status
> local annex size: 58 megabytes
> total annex keys: 38158
> total annex size: 6 terabytes
>
> :)

Thanks a lot for the pointer. I'd love to use git-annex if I can get
my hand to it.
I had a look of the web site and searched a bit on the web, but there does not
seem to be an easy way to install it on windows/cygwin.

I might try the bigFileThreshold setting first. And maybe git-bigfiles.

>
>> I wonder whether anyone has tried using git in a similar scenario. Is
>> git capable of handling this kind of data? And, are there any settings
>> and/or command line options that I should use? I had a quick look of
>> git help push (and pull/fetch) but cannot see anything obvious.
>
> There is a tunable you can use to improve things, see core.bigFileThreshold
>
> That originally came from this project.
> http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/git-bigfiles -- it may have some other
> improvements that have not landed in git, I'm not sure.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>

Thanks
Qingning