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Re: git gc --prune consumes *lots* of memory with repos cloned with --reference

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JNJon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Date
Feb 12, 2009, 20:37 UTC
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Indeed - I was running 1.6.0.2.

I tried 1.6.1.3 and it certainly helped the memory consumption problem, although for some reason it went very slowly the first time.

Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Probably an older git version? There was a bug that caused a memory leak
> with unreachable objects being forced to be loose objects. That was
> fixed in 1.6.0.3

-- Jon

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