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Re: Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do?

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Sep 1, 2010, 14:38 UTC
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<20100901143819.GI32601@spearce.org>
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Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm still interested in whether clone from a client take note of the
> pack.packSizeLimit if I set it
> on the server? Or does it use the client value?
Neither.

A clone doesn't split its pack. It stores the entire project as a single pack file. If your filesystem cannot do that, the clone fails.

-- 
Shawn.
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