On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >> I have a mail archive stored with git, in mbox form, and I made some > >> changes to a few of the files and checked them back in. > >... > > Ouch. Running out of memory while deltifying sounds really bad. > > > Oh, and I'm using: > > $ git --version > > git version 1.2.3.g8c2f > > > > if that helps or not. > > It doen't, since I do not have 8c2fXXXX commit ;-). Heh, that's a merge on my tree, sorry. My tree only has one change to the git-format-patch.sh script. 858cbfbabe4ede5f5eba32041eb7448319e53e2a is the most recent commit from your tree. > I suspect "git push --thin origin" might help, if you are on my > "master" branch: > > diff-tree a79a276... (from 2245be3...) > Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Feb 20 00:09:41 2006 -0800 > > Add git-push --thin. > > Maybe we would want to make this default before it graduates to > the master branch, but in the meantime to help testing things, > this allows you to say "git push --thin destination". > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> Will try that. I eventually gave up on the last push when it ran for 45 minutes at full cpu usage, and X got killed by the OOM killer in the kernel for some reason... thanks, greg k-h - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html