Git gc using excessive memory, unable to complete

Question

Final update and fix: The solution here turned out to be a combination of two things: using Windows Git rather than Cygwin Git as Graham Borland suggest

Answer 1

The only thing that help to avoid this error on shared Linux hosting was to add

  [pack]
    packSizeLimit = 64m
    threads = 1

to

.gitconfig

Most important was "threads = 1"