I think I've cloned files as large as that or larger. If you just want to clone this and move on, perhaps you just need a bit more memory? What's the size of your physical memory and swap partition? Per process memory limit? On 23 Aug 2013 12:59, "Corey Thompson" <cmtptr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On 23/08/13 12:59, Corey Thompson wrote: > 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). -- 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