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Git SVN fetch failing on large commit

From
Andrew Selder <aselder@mac.com>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 01:24 UTC
Message-ID
<loom.20090129T011905-417@post.gmane.org>
Hi,

I'm trying to import an SVN repository and I'm running into trouble on a huge SVN revision.

One of the revisions in SVN has a 1.25 GB file. When the git svn fetch process gets to this revision, it crashed with the following message:

fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed hash-object -w --stdin-paths: command returned error: 128

error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 0 error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 0

This is running on a machine with 3 GB of memory (2.5 GB free before starting git svn), Git 1.6.1, Git-svn 1.6.1(svn 1.5.1)

Help would be greatly appreciated.
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