Re: git doesn't like big files when pushing

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg KH wrote:

That worked fine, but when I went to push the stuff to my server, I got
the following errors:

$ git push origin
updating 'refs/heads/master'
  from 490badd9bec9ada3a21be275c97fb2a3a390f49e
  to   16be8985abc8a9c89ad2cc8f46a0d8e9786e832f
Generating pack...
Done counting 8 objects.
Deltifying 8 objects.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
fatal: early EOF

Gaah. We probably have a memory leak somewhere, and it just normally 
doesn't much matter.

Git does want to keep the "window" of the objects it packs in memory while 
packing (it would be really costly to read them in one at a time, over and 
over again), but it should hopefully not really not need tons more memory 
than that. Since the window is normally 10, and you only have 8 objects, 
it really wants to have all eight in memory, but it shouldn't need a whole 
lot more.

But maybe it's really the case that you can't fit those 8 objects in 
memory. One option (which might also solve some of the performance issues) 
is to make the window be based on object _size_ rather than just be a 
fixed number (ie with an 80MB object, you'd only try a couple of objects 
around it, not the full window).

		Linus