Re: git-clone causes out of memory

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 07:06:03PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:51:58PM +0300, Constantine wrote:

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There's a gitbomb on github. It is undoubtedly creative and funny, but since
this is a bug in git, I thought it'd be nice to report. The command:

	$ git clone https://github.com/x0rz/ShadowBrokersFiles

What fills memory is actually the checkout part of the command. git
clone -n doesn't fail.

Credit should go where it's due: https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
(with the bonus that it comes with explanations)

That is a nice explanation, and I think the dates point to the kate.io
post as the parent there.

I certainly have come across this type of "bomb" repo before, but I
couldn't come up with any public references (somebody uploaded such a
repository to GitHub in 2014). So I think this may be the first public
discussion of the idea.

-Peff