From: Eric Wong Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:30 GMT Subject: Re: Git Subversion problem Message-ID: <20070125095430.GA24742@localdomain> In-Reply-To: alan wrote: > I think I tracked down where my problem with using Git to pull subversion > repositories came from. > > It seems that if the repository has a file larger than what will fit in > memory, it does not react well. (Yes, I know that you should not check in > huge data files into a repository, but accidents happen and Subversion > does not make it easy to remove them.) > > I can work around the problem at the moment, but it may be something that > the person who maintains that chunk of git may want to look at. Which version of git-svn are you using? Can you try git-svn from version 1.4.4.4 of git and see if that problem can be reproduced? The new delta fetching code in the latest git.git master may try to store the entire file in memory when receiving it over the network. -- Eric Wong