What are the file limits in Git (number and size)?

Question

Does anyone know what are the Git limits for number of files and size of files?

Answer 1

If you add files that are too large (GBs in my case, Cygwin, XP, 3 GB RAM), expect this.

fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

More details here

Update 3/2/11: Saw similar in Windows 7 x64 with Tortoise Git. Tons of memory used, very very slow system response.