From: alan Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:54:26 GMT Subject: Re: Git Subversion problem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070125095430.GA24742@localdomain> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote: > alan wrote: >> I think I tracked down where my problem with using Git to pull subversion >> repositories came from. >> >> It seems that if the repository has a file larger than what will fit in >> memory, it does not react well. (Yes, I know that you should not check in >> huge data files into a repository, but accidents happen and Subversion >> does not make it easy to remove them.) >> >> I can work around the problem at the moment, but it may be something that >> the person who maintains that chunk of git may want to look at. > > Which version of git-svn are you using? 1.4.4.2 from FC6. > Can you try git-svn from > version 1.4.4.4 of git and see if that problem can be reproduced? The > new delta fetching code in the latest git.git master may try to store > the entire file in memory when receiving it over the network. I will give it a try and see if it chokes. -- "Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains nothing." - University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark