cloning the linxu kernel repo at a VPS with small RAM

From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 8, 2024, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <2f773980-70ec-4ad0-a49c-3ac12c294a39@gmx.de>

Situation:

The command
     git clone
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
fails at a virtual server with about 2 GiB RAM under a recent Debian
bookworm with git 2.39.2. What works for me:
       git clone --depth=1
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable
       cd ./linux
       git config gc.auto 0
       git config pack.threads 1
       git fetch --tags
as seen in [1].

Q: I do wonder if Git could automatically try to deal with only 1.5 GiB available RAM?

TIA

[1] https://github.com/toralf/tor-relays/blob/main/playbooks/roles/setup/tasks/kernel-git.yaml#L22 -- Toralf