On 06/10/2010 08:04 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
Joshua Jensen<jjensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sometimes, 'git gc' runs out of memory. I have to discover which file
is causing the problem, so I can add it to .gitattributes with a
'-delta' flag. Mostly, though, the repacking takes forever, and I dread
running the operation.
If you have the list of big objects, you can put them into their
own pack file manually. Feed their SHA-1 names on stdin to git
pack-objects, and save the resulting pack under .git/objects/pack.
Do you know any simpler way than
git log --pretty=format:%H | while read x; do
git ls-tree $x -- ChangeLog | awk '{print $3}'
done | sort -u
to do this? I thought it would be nice to add --sha1-only to
git-ls-tree, but maybe I'm missing some other trick.
Assuming the pack was called pack-DEADC0FFEE.pack, create a file
called pack-DEADC0FFEE.keep in the same directory. This will stop
Git from trying to repack the contents of that pack file.
Now run `git gc` to remove those huge objects from the pack file
that contains all of the other stuff.
That obviously wouldn't help if these large binaries are updated often,
however.
Paolo
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