Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2006, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20060301222018.GA9965@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060301220840.GB18250@kroah.com>

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:08:40PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > I have a mail archive stored with git, in mbox form, and I made some
> > changes to a few of the files and checked them back in.
> > 
> > That worked fine, but when I went to push the stuff to my server, I got
> > the following errors:
> > 
> > $ git push origin
> > updating 'refs/heads/master'
> >   from 490badd9bec9ada3a21be275c97fb2a3a390f49e
> >   to   16be8985abc8a9c89ad2cc8f46a0d8e9786e832f
> > Generating pack...
> > Done counting 8 objects.
> > Deltifying 8 objects.
> > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
> > fatal: early EOF
> > unpack unpacker exited with error code
> > ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> 
> Oh, and I'm using:
> 	$ git --version
> 	git version 1.2.3.g8c2f

Hm, 1.2.4.g6177 seems better, it's still trying to pack things, after about 10 minutes, but at least it isn't dying yet. I'll let you know if it finishes properly or not...

thanks,

greg k-h