From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:28:33 GMT
Subject: Re: large(25G) repository in git
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903242025110.26337@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <49C95453.9080503@brainfood.com>

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Adam Heath wrote:

> Sam Hocevar wrote:
> >    In your particular case, I would suggest setting pack.packSizeLimit
> > to something lower. This would reduce the time spent generating a new
> > pack file if the problem were to happen again.
> 
> Yeah, saw that one, but *after* I had this problem.  The default, if
> not set, is unlimited, which in this case, is definately *not* what we
> want.

In your particular case, if the problem is actually what I think it is, 
the pack.packSizeLimit wouldn't have made any difference.  This setting 
affects local repacking only and has no effect what so ever on the push 
operation.


Nicolas