Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20060302003418.GA11119@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060301233506.GA25209@kroah.com>

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:35:06PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:27:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > I suspect "git push --thin origin" might help, if you are on my
> > > "master" branch:
> > > 
> > >         diff-tree a79a276... (from 2245be3...)
> > >         Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> > >         Date:   Mon Feb 20 00:09:41 2006 -0800
> > > 
> > >             Add git-push --thin.
> > > 
> > >             Maybe we would want to make this default before it graduates to
> > >             the master branch, but in the meantime to help testing things,
> > >             this allows you to say "git push --thin destination".
> > > 
> > >             Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> > 
> > Will try that.  I eventually gave up on the last push when it ran for 45
> > minutes at full cpu usage, and X got killed by the OOM killer in the
> > kernel for some reason...
> 
> Nice, this worked!
> 
> Now what's the odds that when I pull from the server to another box
> these same objects, the server will have the same problem as git-push
> did?

Ok, no problem there either.

thanks for the pointer to that option.

greg k-h