I got this message from git-commit: $ git commit -a <edit message, :wq> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Bad file descriptor Create commit <my_prompt_string> The exit status was 128. Looks like the commit was successful though. The partial message 'Create commit ' comes from print_summary() in builtin-commit.c which is _after_ the actual commit. $ git --version git version 1.5.4.rc2.84.gf85fd-dirty It was compiled with NO_CURL=1. The dirtiness comes from the patches I submitted for relink earlier today. The other possible clue is that this repo is on NFS. -brandon - 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