From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:03:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing
Message-ID: <7v8xrtepje.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060301220840.GB18250@kroah.com>

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> I have a mail archive stored with git, in mbox form, and I made some
>> changes to a few of the files and checked them back in.
>...

Ouch.  Running out of memory while deltifying sounds really bad.

> Oh, and I'm using:
> 	$ git --version
> 	git version 1.2.3.g8c2f
>
> if that helps or not.

It doen't, since I do not have 8c2fXXXX commit ;-).

I suspect "git push --thin origin" might help, if you are on my
"master" branch:

        diff-tree a79a276... (from 2245be3...)
        Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
        Date:   Mon Feb 20 00:09:41 2006 -0800

            Add git-push --thin.

            Maybe we would want to make this default before it graduates to
            the master branch, but in the meantime to help testing things,
            this allows you to say "git push --thin destination".

            Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

        :100755 100755 706db99... 73dcf06... M	git-push.sh