Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > You might end up with a situation where you have tons of pack files, e.g. > when using hg2git. In this situation, all kinds of operations may > end up with a "too many files open" error. Let's recover gracefully from > that. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> Yea, this looks right to me. JGit had a similar problem and now maintains a core.packedGitOpenFiles parameter, set to 128 by default, as one of the rules it uses to limit the size of its pack cache area. > diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c > index 28bd908..bd5edd8 100644 > --- a/sha1_file.c > +++ b/sha1_file.c > @@ -720,6 +720,8 @@ static int open_packed_git_1(struct packed_git *p) > return error("packfile %s index unavailable", p->pack_name); > > p->pack_fd = open(p->pack_name, O_RDONLY); > + while (p->pack_fd < 0 && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(p, -1)) > + p->pack_fd = open(p->pack_name, O_RDONLY); > if (p->pack_fd < 0 || fstat(p->pack_fd, &st)) > return -1; > > @@ -937,6 +939,8 @@ static void prepare_packed_git_one(char *objdir, int local) > sprintf(path, "%s/pack", objdir); > len = strlen(path); > dir = opendir(path); > + while (!dir && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(packed_git, -1)) > + dir = opendir(path); > if (!dir) { > if (errno != ENOENT) > error("unable to open object pack directory: %s: %s", > @@ -2339,6 +2343,8 @@ static int write_loose_object(const unsigned char *sha1, char *hdr, int hdrlen, > > filename = sha1_file_name(sha1); > fd = create_tmpfile(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), filename); > + while (fd < 0 && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(packed_git, -1)) > + fd = create_tmpfile(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), filename); > if (fd < 0) { > if (errno == EACCES) > return error("insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database %s\n", get_object_directory()); > -- -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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