Skybuck, maybe this will help clear up this issue: https://www.helpndoc.com/documentation/html/Windowsreservedfilenames.html Saga
-----Original Message----- From: skybuck2000 <skybuck2...@hotmail.com> To: Git for human beings <git-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2022 12:47 am Subject: [git-users] Re: GIT failed to checkout the linux kernel on a 6 GB system Oh, Oh... So while I was waiting for the linux kernel to checkout I was reading some random stuff about operating systems, or mostly linux boot loaders other os loaders and some people on github involved with linux and then I switch back to the linux checkout and I notice this: new@new-PC MINGW64 /e/SourceCode/LinuxKernelWorkAround $ git clone https://github.com/SkybuckFlying/linux.git Cloning into 'linux'... remote: Enumerating objects: 8590563, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (23/23), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done. remote: Total 8590563 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 8590540 Receiving objects: 100% (8590563/8590563), 3.49 GiB | 9.28 MiB/s, done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 214601 bytes) fatal: index-pack failed BOOOOM... failed. SUCKS. My recommendation is to PAUSE git if it runs out of memory cause enabling pagefile.sys is a big fat no-no as far as I am concerned and I am never ever going back to pagefile.sys or any other disk caching technology cause it SLOWS down my SYSTEM(S) incredibly and therefore IT SUCKS. This crash of git was probably caused by the memory consumption of firefox and webpages and blabla. But fear not I will try again over"night" when I go to "sleep" (don't hack me bro hahaha !) and then my poor little laptop with 6 GBs of RAM can try one more time without me fucking up the process by taking up RAM bleh. And if that fails... well holy fok ! At least the shallow clone trick worked but common.... THIS IS GIT. So FAR GIT was pretty good, but this is the first time GIT massively FAILS and is not capable of copeing with THE SKYBUCK LOL. You know I have better things to do then wait 6 hours for a linux git checkout ?! Do you see my point ?! This is definetly something where GIT should be made more reliable ! Don't give me wrong, GIT impresses me many times, but this one NOOOOPPPEEEEEEEEE p: p: p: THUMBS DOWN. Invest some of your time writing out of memory resistant computer programs/GIT versions it may be worth it someday when we hit BIG FAT TRANSISTOR scaling down/up issues whatever. HAHA. Memory does not grow on trees lol. SOME DAY moore's lllaw will come to an END... start preparing for it ! Here is some helpfull hints: TryAlloc instead of Alloc write it like if TryAlloc(...){ } OK ? Believe me it's not that hard, it just requires some time. And in case you didn't get it here is how you may implement TryAlloc int TryAlloc( ...){ try Alloc return true catch exptions return false } Something like that. Good luck ! One last tip, also check for storage space if git runs out of storage space. Pause the program, possibly with a dialog screen or even better, terminate the command and make it possible to continue the command later... if that is too difficult... at least pausethe command and make the user hit a button to continue and try again. Again not that hard and well worth it. This allows the users to free up space, to continue these kinds of long processes. And let's be honest there is no indicator how much space a checkout requires so sooner or later people will run out of space. For now with big terrabyte disks, not yet a problem... then again... my disks after a few years pretty full, cause there is so much fun toy stuff out there... and again moore's law will strike the harddisk world as well someday ! Prepare for it ! Yeah And in cause you don't believe me my own UDP File Transfer already does all of it that I wrote above :P* Yes and I have also have an unreleased version which can do 64 bit file transfer instead of just 32 bits. Perhaps a simpler program then again it's also complex enough that it proves it can be done (in Delphi and I am sure C/C++ can do it as well, cause Delphi is mostly a subset of C/C++) Bye, Skybuck. (I mean it, get this done !)-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/e600184e-911a-4647-9fd9-d596976f9093n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/453361847.3453961.1646063763468%40mail.yahoo.com.
