Subject: Re: BUG Report. Why GIT commit need 30GB of memory for a commit?

From: Robin Rosenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:48:47 +0200

Jose Nobile skrev 2012-08-20 07.12:
> I have a big repository, around 80GB
> git --version
> #git version 1.7.12
> git init .
> #Initialized empty Git repository in /reponame/.git/
> git add -A .
>
> git commmit -m "Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44"
> #fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 32220431361 bytes)
> #[master (root-commit) 8053f0d] Backup 2012-08-19 03:43:44
>
>   Why GIT need 30GB of memory for a commit?

It may be trying to compute a commit summary. Add -q to avoid the work.

-- robin