From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git clone dies (large git repository) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:58:22 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 19 13:00:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEOYn-0000Hs-14 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:00:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751318AbWHSLAJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:00:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751710AbWHSLAI (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:00:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:15287 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751318AbWHSLAG (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:00:06 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GEOYc-0000G3-95 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:00:02 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-24-244.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:00:02 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-244.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-244.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Troy Telford wrote: > I originally had everything as loose objects. =A0I then ran 'git-repa= ck -d' =A0 > on occasion, so I had a combination of a large pack file, smaller pac= k =A0 > files, and loose objects. =A0Finally, I tried 'git repack -a -d' and = =A0 > consolidated it all into a single 4GB pack file. =A0It didn't seem to= make =A0 > much difference in the output. >=20 > Am I bumping some sort of limitation within git, or have I uncovered > a bug?=20 You _might_ have bumped into filesystem limit on file size, or system l= imit on mmap size. IIRC it was to be addressed (splitting packs into manageable hunks). --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git