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From: Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:52:52 +1000
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Hi Nicolas,

On 4 April 2011 01:18, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
>
> Something you can try is to simply tell Git not to attempt any delta
> compression on those tar files using gitattributes (see the man page of
> the same name).
>

Seems to have worked. Both git-gc and git-repack appear to be less
memory hungry now and do actually run to completion without failure.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Alif