From: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:18:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Git chokes on large file
Message-ID: <201405281818.s4SIIV5n026003@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnuhesm5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

> You need to have enough memory (virtual is fine if you have enough
> time) to do fsck.  Some part of index-pack could be refactored into
> a common helper function that could be called from fsck, but I think
> it would be a lot of work.

How much memory is "enough"?  And how is it that fsck is coded so that
the available RAM is a limit on which repositories can be checked?
Did someone forget that RAM may be considerably smaller than the
amount of data a program may have to deal with?

Dale