From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git clone out of memory. alternatives? Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeffrey Chang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 28 12:56:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfDCF-0002Ah-Bm for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:56:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753276AbYC1Lzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:55:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753250AbYC1Lzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:55:50 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48849 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753226AbYC1Lzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:55:50 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2008 11:55:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2008 12:55:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/S1vhOvnHSvtPdbMQk8MskM7jubB2nHiit6SXDTd acuOKwl1xYG8nq X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Jeffrey Chang wrote: > I am working with a large-ish git repository set up as a shared > repository. I am the only user of this repository, and I access it over > ssh. > > I am running into a problem where I can no longer clone the repository > on a new computer. I get a message that seems to indicate that the > machine with the repository is running out of memory. AFAICT the config variables pack.* (see config.txt) allow to tune the packing, even for cloning. Hth, Dscho