Re: git-p4 out of memory for very large repository

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 07:48:56AM -0400, Corey Thompson wrote:
> Sorry, I guess I could have included more details in my original post.
> Since then, I have also made an attempt to clone another (slightly more
> recent) branch, and at last had success.  So I see this does indeed
> work, it just seems to be very unhappy with one particular branch.
> 
> So, here are a few statistics I collected on the two branches.
> 
> branch-that-fails:
> total workspace disk usage (current head): 12GB
> 68 files over 20MB
> largest three being about 118MB
> 
> branch-that-clones:
> total workspace disk usage (current head): 11GB
> 22 files over 20MB
> largest three being about 80MB
> 
> I suspect that part of the problem here might be that my company likes
> to submit very large binaries into our repo (.tar.gzs, pre-compiled
> third party binaries, etc.).
> 
> Is there any way I can clone this in pieces?  The best I've come up with
> is to clone only up to a change number just before it tends to fail, and
> then rebase to the latest.  My clone succeeded, but the rebase still
> runs out of memory.  It would be great if I could specify a change
> number to rebase up to, so that I can just take this thing a few hundred
> changes at a time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Corey

And I still haven't told you anything about my platform or git
version...

This is on Fedora Core 11, with git 1.8.3.4 built from the github repo
(117eea7e).
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