From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Message-ID: <m3y6siboij.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <submission.1M9Gk0-0000N8-MQ@mail.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>

Christopher Jefferson <caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk> writes:

> I recently came across a very annoying problem, characterised by the
> following example:
> 
> On a recent ubuntu install:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1300k count=1k
> git commit file -m "Add huge file"
> 
> 
> The repository can be pulled and pushed successfully to other ubuntu
> installs, but on Mac OS X, 10.5.7 machine with 4GB ram git pull
> produces:

Do seting `pack.packSizeLimit`, or adjusting values of
`core.packedGitWindowSize` and/or `core.packedGitLimit`
(see git-config(1)) help in your situation?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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