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git gc out of memory

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Mar 15, 20263329 views
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Problem

I have to clean-up my git repository with . Unfortunately I do get a fatal out of memory error. This is with git 1.7.4 on Ubuntu 10.4. Any ideas to get arround this problem?

Error Output

ernst@samson:~/htdocs/stockdoo$ git gc
Counting objects: 42368, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (24700/24700…

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