I've discovered a problem using Git. It's not clear to me what the
"correct" behavior should be, but it seems to me that Git is failing
in an undesirable way.
The problem arises when trying to handle a very large file. For
example:
$ git --version
git version 1.8.3.1
$ mkdir $$
$ cd $$
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /common/not-replicated/worley/temp/5627/.git/
$ truncate --size=20G big_file
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 worley worley 21474836480 May 27 11:59 big_file
$ time git add big_file
real 4m48.752s
user 4m31.295s
sys 0m16.747s
$
At this point, either 'git fsck' or 'git commit' fails:
$ git fsck --full --strict
notice: HEAD points to an unborn branch (master)
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 21474836481 bytes)
$ git commit -m Test.
[master (root-commit) 3df3655] Test.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 21474836481 bytes)
The central problem is that one can accidentally add a file that
leaves the repository in a "broken" state, where various normal
commands simply don't work. The most worrying aspect is that "git
fsck" fails -- of all the commands, the one that verifies the validity
of the repository (and diagnoses errors) should be the most robust!
Even doing a 'git reset' does not put the repository in a state where
'git fsck' will complete:
$ git reset
$ git fsck --full --strict
notice: HEAD points to an unborn branch (master)
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 21474836481 bytes)
Dale
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