Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

> 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.