In case anyone comes across this as I did, you can set this globally by
using
git config --global [configuration option]
there probably is a file for it, but that's how you can do it at least from
cmdline and it should apply to all new projects as well
On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 7:23:47 AM UTC+13, Ryan W wrote:
>
> So what I did was went in and updated
> the /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories/reponame.git/config file so it
> looked like this:
>
> [core]
> repositoryformatversion = 0
> filemode = true
> bare = true
> [pack]
> windowMemory = 128m
> packSizeLimit = 512m
>
> and then repacked the repo: #git repack -a -d
>
> I also increased the swap from 2 to 3GB but after these settings were in
> effect and the repo repacked, git hardly touched the swap file.
>
> What I would love to know however is if a file I can edit that controls
> what those initial config files look like so I don't have to do this for
> every new repo that is created
>
> On Friday, November 14, 2014 2:08:20 PM UTC-5, Ryan W wrote:
>>
>> Right now our gitlab server is using up all of it's memory when people
>> try to clone repos over 3GB in size.. I've created a 2GB swap partition but
>> we're still chewing through all of that for larger repos as the packing
>> process sucks up more ram than we can spare. So I wanted to check if there
>> is a setting that I can configure in Gitlab or if I should install git and
>> set it that way?
>>
>> The server instance I setup gitlab on doesn't have git installed so I am
>> going to have to apt-get install git to get it up and running in order to
>> set my packsizelimit. Not wanting to rock the boat I assumed that git
>> wasn't installed for a reason and wanted to check if there was a gitlab
>> only way that I could adjust this variable to limit the pack size to a few
>> hundred MB instead.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>
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