Is there a way to limit the amount of memory that “git gc” uses?

Question

I\'m hosting a git repo on a shared host. My repo necessarily has a couple of very large files in it, and every time I try to run \"git gc\" on the repo now, my process get

Answer 1

You could use turn off the delta attribute to disable delta compression for just the blobs of those pathnames:

In foo/.git/info/attributes (or foo.git/info/attributes if it is a bare repository) (see the delta entry in gitattributes and see gitignore for the pattern syntax):

/large_file_dir/* -delta
*.psd -delta
/data/*.iso -delta
/some/big/file -delta
another/file/that/is/large -delta

This will not affect clones of the repository. To affect other repositories (i.e. clones), put the attributes in a .gitattributes file instead of (or in addition to) the info/attributes file.