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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2013-09-19 18:59:42 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-09-19 18:59:42 +0000 |
| commit | 662f2bc65a62d7fc19c710baa5002df62013cb12 (patch) | |
| tree | 13c0131f3c7a3db6c284b93388db5f79e901e84f | |
| parent | fe33dd8c5054c06b6fd4b6b0882b717efb8d9f9c (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Huge_annex_out_of_memory_on_switch_to_indirect_mode_and_status/comment_3_a07105226ef3488b97731db004651976._comment b/doc/bugs/Huge_annex_out_of_memory_on_switch_to_indirect_mode_and_status/comment_3_a07105226ef3488b97731db004651976._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e4795e5a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Huge_annex_out_of_memory_on_switch_to_indirect_mode_and_status/comment_3_a07105226ef3488b97731db004651976._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="4.153.14.105" + subject="comment 3" + date="2013-09-19T18:59:42Z" + content=""" +It turns out that if you are using direct mode and you manually `git commit some-file` that is really big, that file is checked directly into git. Which is why direct mode's docs say not to do that. + +Once you've got an enormous file in git, either on purpose on by mistake, it turns out that git-annex tries to buffer the whole file content in some situations. I am in the process of fixing those memory leaks. +"""]] |