Re: git-repack: Outof memory

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 18, 2006, 06:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20060918065055.GC20660@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64flyjpe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > ...  I fear that
> > you are going to bump up against address space limitations soon
> > on 32 bit systems.  Then you will bump up against the 4 GiB pack
> > file size limit.  Which means you will need to use several packs
> > and avoid the '-a' flag when calling git-repack.
> 
> I presume that you are hinting that we would need to update
> git-repack so that it is still useful without --all.

Yes.  :-)

Apparently the Porcelain level is still open for debate. Someone just needs to post a reasonable implementation to get discussion (or lack there of) going. I'm too tired right now to try to roll something up right, even though it looks to be rather simple.

As it is I'm having a difficult time navigating in vi to write this email and normally vi navigation is as easy as breathing for me...

> I think pack-objects --unpacked=active-pack is ready, so I'll
> push it out.

Thanks; I noticed that in your "What's in git.git" announcement.

-- 
Shawn.