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

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:04 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> 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.)

There have been some bugs uncovered recently with memory usage for large
sets of copies. These have been fixed in the -stable branch and should
be released as 1.3.1 shortly.

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