From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:27 GMT Subject: Re: Bug - crash on large commit Message-ID: <40aa078e1003230125n5be565drb55fa7fdf731c72e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <310ba29b220a70e5624819e6ef80bff0.squirrel@www.pkts.ca> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:36 AM, P Fudd wrote: > Bug 2: git died with an out-of-memory error on the commit: > ------ > # git commit -a > [master (root-commit) 62b52e2] The initial checkin of the whole hard disk. >  Committer: System Administrator > Your name and email address were configured automatically based > on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. > You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly: > >    git config --global user.name "Your Name" >    git config --global user.email you@example.com > > If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with: > >    git commit --amend --author='Your Name ' > > git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=1964838912) failed (error code=12) > *** error: can't allocate region > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=1964838912) failed (error code=12) > *** error: can't allocate region > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed > [Mac-Pro:/] shadministrator# git version > git version 1.7.0.2 Is your git built as a 32-bit program? If so, it can't handle files larger than ~1-2 gb, which looks like it might be the case here... -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund