[Engine-devel] Getting into memory allocation problems in git?

[Yair Zaslavsky]

Hi all,
I got a strange error while trying to fetch a patch from ovrit gerrit.
The error looked like this -


git fetch http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/ovirt-engine refs/changes/41/3541/1
&& git checkout FETCH_HEAD
error: Could not resolve host: gerrit.ovirt.org; Cannot allocate memory
while accessing http://gerrit.ovirt.org/p/ovirt-engine/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed



Could not find anything interesting in google, and out of despair
started to pass on manual of git.
I then encountered git gc.
My java instincts told me to give it a shot (after all, garbage
collection sounds good), and it worked!
(Nothing helped before - not removing local branches, not trying to
perform this from various branches, etc...)


FYI

Yair