Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me
- From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Jan 5, 2007, 21:57 UTC
- Message-ID
- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051354590.3661@woody.osdl.org>
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- <7vtzz5duk1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Somehow we forgot to turn save_commit_buffer off while walking > the reachable objects. Releasing the memory for commit object > data that we do not use matters for large projects (for example, > about 90MB is saved while traversing linux-2.6 history).
Heh. Maybe we should just make the default the other way? It's probably pretty easy to find any users that suddenly start segfaulting ;)
(and just setting it in "cmd_log_init" would likely catch quite a number of them already).
Linus