Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do?

Hi,

I did a "git gc" on a repository and ended up with a 4GB pack ... now I
can't clone the repository and get the following:


remote: fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
error: git upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption
on the remote side.
fatal: index-pack failed

How do I deal with this?   I'm running git version 1.6.2.3

I've looked at "git repack --max-pack-size", but which that created new packs it
didn't delete the old monster. If I run gc, how do I tell it about the
max-pack size? It doesn't
seem to support this argument.

Cheers,
Geoff

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