Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

> Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:44:58 -0400
> From:	"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
> To:	"Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
> Cc:	git@vger.kernel.org
> 
> On 6/10/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> >"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Here's a new transport problem. When using git-clone to fetch Martin's
> >> tree it kept failing for me at dreamhost. I had a parallel fetch
> >> running on my local machine which has a much slower net connection. It
> >> finally finished and I am watching the end phase where it prints all
> >> of the 'walk' messages. The git-http-fetch process has jumped up to
> >> 800MB in size after being 2MB during the download. dreamhost has a
> >> 500MB process size limit so that is why my fetches kept failing there.
> >
> >The http-fetch process uses by mmaping the downloaded pack, and
> >if I recall correctly we are talking about 600MB pack, so 500MB
> >limit sounds impossible, perhaps?
> 
> The fetch on my local machine failed too. It left nothing behind, now
> I have to download the 680MB again.
> 
> walk 1f19465388a4ef7aff7527a13f16122a809487d4
> walk c3ca840256e3767d08c649f8d2761a1a887351ab
> walk 7a74e42699320c02b814b88beadb1ae65009e745
> error: Couldn't get
> http://mirrors.catalyst.net.nz/pub/mozilla.git//refs/tags/JS%5F1%5F7%5FALPHA%5FBASE
> for tags/JS_1_7_ALPHA_BASE
> Couldn't resolve host 'mirrors.catalyst.net.nz'
> error: Could not interpret tags/JS_1_7_ALPHA_BASE as something to pull
> [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$ cg update
> There is no GIT repository here (.git not found)
> [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$ ls -a
> .  ..
> [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$