[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.55"
 subject="comment 7"
 date="2014-07-04T22:09:38Z"
 content="""
I wrote my own getDirectoryContents' with different exception semantics and entirely fixed this now. git-annex's memory use remains stable at around 1.5 mb during the entire staging of the millions of files. git itself uses a few hundred mb ;)
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