> Many operations in git assume that a whole file can be held in memory at > once. Do you actually have 2G available on the machine? Are there any OS > limits that might be a problem? Thanks for your answer Jeff, Yes I have more that 2 Go available when a do it, and after this allocation error if I try to do a 'git add' with a 9Go file, I did not have any issue. Emmanuel. -- 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