From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:47 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: unable to write sha1 file git 1.6.2.1
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903241527420.26337@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <49C9246E.3030508@mycircuit.org>

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Peter wrote:

> Hi
> I try to add a directory with lots of binary files to a git repository.
> I receive the error message:
> *
> fatal: unable to write sha1 file
> 
> *This is  git 1.6.2.1.
> 
> Are there limits concerning binary files ( like executables , images ) for the
> inclusion in a git repo ?

Currently, Git is unable to deal with files that it cannot load entirely 
in memory.

What is the size of your largest file?


Nicolas