On (10/06/06 11:44), Jon Smirl wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:44:58 -0400 > From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > On 6/10/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> Here's a new transport problem. When using git-clone to fetch Martin's > >> tree it kept failing for me at dreamhost. I had a parallel fetch > >> running on my local machine which has a much slower net connection. It > >> finally finished and I am watching the end phase where it prints all > >> of the 'walk' messages. The git-http-fetch process has jumped up to > >> 800MB in size after being 2MB during the download. dreamhost has a > >> 500MB process size limit so that is why my fetches kept failing there. > > > >The http-fetch process uses by mmaping the downloaded pack, and > >if I recall correctly we are talking about 600MB pack, so 500MB > >limit sounds impossible, perhaps? > > The fetch on my local machine failed too. It left nothing behind, now > I have to download the 680MB again. > > walk 1f19465388a4ef7aff7527a13f16122a809487d4 > walk c3ca840256e3767d08c649f8d2761a1a887351ab > walk 7a74e42699320c02b814b88beadb1ae65009e745 > error: Couldn't get > http://mirrors.catalyst.net.nz/pub/mozilla.git//refs/tags/JS%5F1%5F7%5FALPHA%5FBASE > for tags/JS_1_7_ALPHA_BASE > Couldn't resolve host 'mirrors.catalyst.net.nz' > error: Could not interpret tags/JS_1_7_ALPHA_BASE as something to pull > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$ cg update > There is no GIT repository here (.git not found) > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$ ls -a > . .. > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl mozgit]$ To prevent repeat (on this repo) your could grab it with a browser: -mkdir tmp; cd tmp; git init-db; -copy mirror../pu/mozilla.git/objects/* to .git/objects/ -copy --||---.git/info/refs to refsinfo in tmp-dir gawk '{if ($2 !~ /\^\{\}$/) print $1 > sprintf(".git/%s",$2);}' refsinfo to extract branches and tags into ./git/refs/{heads,tags} start playing (after a backup) with git-fsck-objects, git-checkout etc. -- Lars Johannsen mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - : 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