Re: Git to Bzr - what works?

[Daniel Colascione]

On 8/16/12 7:27 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 8/16/2012 5:09 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Julien Danjou <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> git-bzr-ng¹ works well for me. Push does not work because of bzr bug
>>> #541626² that nobody ever wanted to fix.
>>
>> You can use bzr-fastimport from
>> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~schwab-linux-m68k/bzr-fastimport/master/>
>> instead, which is based on a still working older version plus some
>> pending bug fixes.
> 
> I tried using git-bzr-ng along with Adnreas's bzr-fastimport branch. After
> several hours, the git bzr clone operation failed because it managed to use 
> all
> 17GB of disk space available on my VM.
> 

On a different machine, I let git bzr run for a while. After chewing
through about 50GB of disk space, the import process failed with this
error:

python(60661) malloc: *** mmap(size=140780772814848) failed (error
code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region

Even the most heroic of memory managers won't honor a request for 140
terabytes.

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