"abort: out of memory" when running "hg up".

Greg Ward greg-hg at gerg.ca
Thu Jul 16 09:04:43 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Marijn Vriens<marijnvriens at gmail.com> wrote:
> My repository's first few commits are importing an existing  and
> restructuring. It is a largish (200M) code base. Jumping from rev 0 to 1 is
> a big changeset indeed.

200 MB of small-to-medium files should not be a problem.  Do you have
any really large files in there?  That is the usual cause of
out-of-memory errors.

(See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HandlingLargeFiles if you're
interested in gory technical details.)

Greg



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