Re: Git Subversion problem

From: alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: 2007-01-26 03:54:26
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

> alan <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:
>> I think I tracked down where my problem with using Git to pull subversion
>> repositories came from.
>>
>> It seems that if the repository has a file larger than what will fit in
>> memory, it does not react well.  (Yes, I know that you should not check in
>> huge data files into a repository, but accidents happen and Subversion
>> does not make it easy to remove them.)
>>
>> I can work around the problem at the moment, but it may be something that
>> the person who maintains that chunk of git may want to look at.
>
> Which version of git-svn are you using?

1.4.4.2 from FC6.

> Can you try git-svn from
> version 1.4.4.4 of git and see if that problem can be reproduced?  The
> new delta fetching code in the latest git.git master may try to store
> the entire file in memory when receiving it over the network.

I will give it a try and see if it chokes.

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