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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone dies (large git repository)
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:58:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec6qsa$aal$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.teh30gmyies9li@rygel.lnxi.com

Troy Telford wrote:

> I originally had everything as loose objects.  I then ran 'git-repack -d'  
> on occasion, so I had a combination of a large pack file, smaller pack  
> files, and loose objects.  Finally, I tried 'git repack -a -d' and  
> consolidated it all into a single 4GB pack file.  It didn't seem to make  
> much difference in the output.
> 
> Am I bumping some sort of limitation within git, or have I uncovered
> a bug? 

You _might_ have bumped into filesystem limit on file size, or system limit
on mmap size.

IIRC it was to be addressed (splitting packs into manageable hunks).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-19 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-18 22:42 git clone dies (large git repository) Troy Telford
2006-08-19 10:58 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-08-19 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-21 23:30   ` Troy Telford
2006-08-22  0:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-22  0:42       ` Jakub Narebski

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