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Implementation bug with cherry-picking multiple commits

Subject: Implementation bug with cherry-picking multiple commits

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Dun Peal· Oct 1, 2010, 16:16 UTC · lore

I tried using the new feature allowing the cherry-picking of multiple commits at the same time:

  $ git cherry-pick foo~100...foo

I got an error that indicates a potential implementation bug:

  error: cannot fork() for commit: Cannot allocate memory

This is a powerful CentOS server with almost 8GB of free RAM at the cherry-pick operation runtime.

Thanks, D

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