Git push “error: index-pack died of signal 9”

Question

I\'ve seen a couple of similar questions to this, but haven\'t been able to solve my problem so am asking again.

I added a load of new files to an existing git-ena

Answer 1

Git is somewhat memory intensive for certain operations, trading memory usage to get improved disk or network performance. (See for example some discussion on this other SO question.)

In this case, I think you and your colleagues are effectively doing a different cost trade-off: you are trading off using a professionally managed Git hosting service (such as GitHub or BitBucket) for either perceived financial savings or some other convenience (perhaps deployment?).

My recommendation, if you are not comfortable following the kinds of recommendations on the wiki/blog-post that you've cited, is to move to GitHub or Bitbucket. (I think those posts offer technically accurate solutions, FWIW.) Bitbucket offers free unlimited private repositories so there's no real cost reason to use Dreamhost for your Git hosting.

If you need some sort of deployment solution to go along with the hosting, you can engineer something that takes pushes and automatically updates just the working directory to Dreamhost for hosting, without incurring the full cost of hosting a Git repository (and all of your history) on Dreamhost.