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Re: Git exhausts memory.

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HHHolger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date
Apr 5, 2011, 16:48 UTC
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On 04.04.2011 16:57, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Alif Wahid<alif.wahid@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On 4 April 2011 01:18, Nicolas Pitre<nico@fluxnic.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Something you can try is to simply tell Git not to attempt any delta
>>> compression on those tar files using gitattributes (see the man page of
>>> the same name).
>
> Should we change the default to not delta if a blob exceeds predefined
> limit (say 128M)? People who deliberately wants to delta them can
> still set delta attr. 1.8.0 material maybe?
Isn't this already done with the config variable core.bigFileThreshold ?

documentation says: "Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without attempting delta compression. ... Default is 512 MiB on all platforms."

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Message 11 of 19 in “Git exhausts memory.”
  1. Alif WahidApr 2, 2011
  2. Nicolas PitreApr 2, 2011
  3. Alif WahidApr 3, 2011
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 3, 2011
  5. Alif WahidApr 4, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 4, 2011
  7. David FriesApr 5, 2011
  8. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 5, 2011
  10. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  11. Holger HellmuthApr 5, 2011
  12. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreApr 5, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  16. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  17. Nicolas PitreApr 6, 2011
  18. Jay SoffianApr 6, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2011

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