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Re: Git SVN fetch failing on large commit

From
Andrew Selder <aselder@mac.com>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 03:43 UTC
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<loom.20090129T034046-842@post.gmane.org>
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Andrew Selder <aselder <at> mac.com> writes:
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> 
> 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
> 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)

Upgraded to Git 1.6.1.1, but still the same results. I saw the --ignore-paths option online, but it doesn't seem to be in the lastest version. This would probably work for me. Does anybody know when that feature is scheduled for release?

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