From: Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:52:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Message-ID: <BANLkTinCwZG3+0Ss8o9ODptg=L8LKKN7aQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1104031110150.28032@xanadu.home>

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).
>

Seems to have worked. Both git-gc and git-repack appear to be less
memory hungry now and do actually run to completion without failure.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Alif