Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 22:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051414140.14017@blackbox.fnordora.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051354590.3661@woody.osdl.org>

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 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).
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> Heh. Maybe we should just make the default the other way? It's probably
> pretty easy to find any users that suddenly start segfaulting ;)

I am trying to import a subversion repository and have yet to be able to suck down the whole thing without segfaulting. It is a large repository. Works fine until about the last 10% and then runs out of memory.

open3: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/bin/git-svn line 2711
512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 446
         main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 314
         main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 173

I need to try the "partial download" script and see if that helps.

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