On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Alif Wahid wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> On 3 April 2011 02:05, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> 
> > Don't use --max-pack-size.  That won't help here.
> 
> I've tried only --window-memory with different values and they all
> failed. It seems to me as though this option is simply ignored or
> non-existent.

It is not ignored, but there are situations where there are problem 
making it effective, especially if a few files are very large.

> > How large are those tar files?
> 
> The tar files aggregate to just under 2 GB and my complete working
> tree is around 3 GB.

What about the individual size for those files?

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).


Nicolas