From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:06:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git-clone causes out of memory
Message-ID: <20171013100603.5eed26sjjigph2il@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <515b1400-4053-70b0-18e2-1f61ebc3b2d7@yandex.ru>

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:51:58PM +0300, Constantine wrote:
> There's a gitbomb on github. It is undoubtedly creative and funny, but since
> this is a bug in git, I thought it'd be nice to report. The command:
> 
> 	$ git clone https://github.com/x0rz/ShadowBrokersFiles

What fills memory is actually the checkout part of the command. git
clone -n doesn't fail.

Credit should go where it's due: https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
(with the bonus that it comes with explanations)

Mike