One way to shrink the repo size is rewriting your branches. Once you get the biggest files, try to use 'git-filter-branch' to remove them from your repository.
Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:15 PM, agaelebe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm with the following problem. > > I have a git repository in a VPS with 360mb of ram. > > Unfortunately, I started tracking a SQL.dump file (bad idea, by the > way). That file grew bigger and bigger and it's almost 50mb now. My > repository is about 400mb! > And when I try to run git gc inside the project I get: > > Counting objects: 3290, done. > warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed) > error: failed to run repac > > If I try to clone the project in my local machine I get simillar out- > of-memory errors. > I tried to revert some commits but It didn't work. > > So, how can I find these big files (the different versions) and get > rid of them so I can shrink the repository size? > Does someone have a clue of what can I do? > > On my local machine I'm running version 1.6.0.4 and on the VPS version > 1.6.3.2 ( I updated it to latest version to ceck if it would solve the > problem) > > Thanks for your attention > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
