I have a big repository, around 80GB git --version #git version 1.7.12 git init . #Initialized empty Git repository in /reponame/.git/ git add -A . git commmit -m "Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44" #fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 32220431361 bytes) #[master (root-commit) 8053f0d] Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44 Why GIT need 30GB of memory for a commit? This is not in accordance with the first paragraph of the homepage of main page of GIT: Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Greetings, José Nobile -- 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