From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:57:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Message-ID: <BANLkTinU7x16yp+y-HW9UhkVn9SftOJCcA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinCwZG3+0Ss8o9ODptg=L8LKKN7aQ@mail.gmail.com>

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?

> 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.
-- 
Duy