I have a large repository (17 GiB of disk used), although no single file in the repository is over 1 GiB. (I have pack.packSizeLimit set to "1g".) I don't know how many files are in the repository, but it shouldn't exceed several tens of commits each containing several tens of thousands of files. Due to Git crashing while performing an operation, I want to verify that the repository is consistent. However, when I run "git fsck" it fails, apparently because it is trying to allocate 80 G of memory. (I can still do adds, commits, etc.) # git fsck Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 80530636801 bytes) # I don't know if this is due to an outright bug or not. But it seems to me that "git fsck" should not need to allocate any more memory than the size (1 GiB) of a single pack file. And given its purpose, "git fsck" should be one of the *most* robust Git tools! Dale -- 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