From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Constantine <hi-angel@yandex.ru>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-clone causes out of memory
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:35:21 -0400
Message-ID: <20171013123521.hop5hrfsyagu7znl@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171013100603.5eed26sjjigph2il@glandium.org>
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 07:06:03PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:51:58PM +0300, Constantine wrote:
> > There's a gitbomb on github. It is undoubtedly creative and funny, but since
> > this is a bug in git, I thought it'd be nice to report. The command:
> >
> > $ git clone https://github.com/x0rz/ShadowBrokersFiles
>
> What fills memory is actually the checkout part of the command. git
> clone -n doesn't fail.
>
> Credit should go where it's due: https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
> (with the bonus that it comes with explanations)
That is a nice explanation, and I think the dates point to the kate.io
post as the parent there.
I certainly have come across this type of "bomb" repo before, but I
couldn't come up with any public references (somebody uploaded such a
repository to GitHub in 2014). So I think this may be the first public
discussion of the idea.
-Peff
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-13 9:51 Constantine
2017-10-13 10:06 ` Mike Hommey
2017-10-13 10:26 ` Christian Couder
2017-10-13 10:37 ` Mike Hommey
2017-10-13 10:44 ` Christian Couder
2017-10-13 12:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13 12:12 ` Constantine
2017-10-13 12:44 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 13:15 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 13:39 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 13:50 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 13:55 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 13:56 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 14:10 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 14:20 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 14:25 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 14:26 ` Jeff King
2017-10-13 14:30 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 15:27 ` [PATCH] revision: quit pruning diff more quickly when possible Jeff King
2017-10-13 15:37 ` Derrick Stolee
2017-10-13 15:44 ` Jeff King
2017-10-14 2:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-13 12:35 ` Jeff King [this message]
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