# Git SVN fetch failing on large commit 2 messages from 2009-01-29 to 2009-01-29. Participants: Andrew Selder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17425 ## Andrew Selder, 2009-01-29 01:24 Subject: Git SVN fetch failing on large commit Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090129T011905-417%40post.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. ``` ## Andrew Selder, 2009-01-29 03:43 Subject: Re: Git SVN fetch failing on large commit Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090129T034046-842%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Andrew Selder mac.com> writes: > > 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? ```