From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:57:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051354590.3661@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzz5duk1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> 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