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Posted Oct 21, 2009 23:31 UTC (Wed) by joey (guest, #328)
In reply to: Perforce by cortana
Parent article: KS2009: How Google uses Linux

Me and my 50 gb git repos thank you for that! But since finding LWN comments
in future is not my strong suite, I sent in a patch to document it on
gitattributes(1) ;)

Looks to me to make large object commits fast, but git pull will still
compress the objects, and still tends to run out of memory when they're
large.

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Posted Oct 21, 2009 23:51 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Thanks so much for that. I would have suggested a patch, honest, but I'm super busy at work at the moment... ;)

Presumably git-pull running out of memory would be a server-side issue? And in that case, if you're not running a sensible 64-bit operating system on your server then you deserve what you get... ;)