Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: Chris Lee <chris133@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <204011cb0701051503m3a431e07qc12662eecc08884f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzz5duk1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 1/5/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Subject: [PATCH] builtin-prune: memory diet.
>
> Somehow we forgot to turn save_commit_buffer off while walking
> the reachable objects.  Releasing the memory for commit object
> data that we do not use matters for large projects (for example,
> about 90MB is saved while traversing linux-2.6 history).

Is git-verify-pack supposed to mmap the entire packfile? Because the version I have maps 2.3GB into RAM and keeps it there until it's done.

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