Control: reassign -1 dgit-infrastructure
Control: found -1 2.4
Control: retitle -1 Should occasionally run git-gc in dgit-repos
Anders Kaseorg writes ("Re: Bug#841414: git "fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed:
Cannot allocate memory""):
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Does that seem right ?
>
> Sounds right to me.
Right, OK, thanks.
> > I have an outstanding question: do I need to lock against concurrent
> > updates by other programs ? That is, can I run git-gc and (say)
> > git-receive-pack at the same time, safely ?
>
> This is safe by default, as long as you don’t use something like
> --prune=all or gc.pruneExpire=all.
Thanks for your helpful input.
Regards,
Ian.
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