"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@xxxxxxx> writes: > > when doing a `git svn clone' on a subversion repository that contains > > a large file (>1GiB), `git svn' dies with the following: > > > > ams@trillian:~$ git svn clone REPO -T trunk -b branches -t tags > > [...] > > fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory > > hash-object -w --stdin-paths: command returned error: 128 Ding... > > git version 1.6.1.3 > > Core git requires objects to be able to fit into (virtual) memory. > Adding more swap space should solve the problem for you, but this is not > only a git-svn problem. > > In this case, the machine has 32G RAM, including ~20G swap. So I do > not think that this is the case, it could be I suppose... The hash-object error message sounds like the issue that was fixed with 915308b (avoid 31-bit truncation in write_loose_object, 2009-01-29). Does v1.6.2-rc1 help? -- 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
