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Re: large(25G) repository in git

From
Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 00:57 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Adam Heath wrote:
> 
>> Sam Hocevar wrote:
>>>    In your particular case, I would suggest setting pack.packSizeLimit
>>> to something lower. This would reduce the time spent generating a new
>>> pack file if the problem were to happen again.
>> Yeah, saw that one, but *after* I had this problem.  The default, if
>> not set, is unlimited, which in this case, is definately *not* what we
>> want.
> 
> In your particular case, if the problem is actually what I think it is, 
> the pack.packSizeLimit wouldn't have made any difference.  This setting 
> affects local repacking only and has no effect what so ever on the push 
> operation.

Ooh. Care to enlighten those of us not blessed with git internal knowledge?

On another note, anyone have a goat I can buy, for the sacrifice?
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Message 13 of 16 in “large(25G) repository in git”
  1. Adam HeathMar 23, 2009
  2. Nicolas PitreMar 24, 2009
  3. Adam HeathMar 24, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreMar 24, 2009
  5. Adam HeathMar 24, 2009
  6. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2009
  7. david@lang.hmMar 24, 2009
  8. Andreas EricssonMar 24, 2009
  9. Adam HeathMar 24, 2009
  10. Sam HocevarMar 24, 2009
  11. Adam HeathMar 24, 2009
  12. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2009
  13. Adam HeathMar 25, 2009
  14. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2009
  15. Marcel M. CaryMar 26, 2009
  16. Adam HeathMar 26, 2009

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