OverflowError: - when committing +93k files

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:13:40PM +0200, Bjarne Christiansen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have just created a new repo. I added 93712 files and got the following
> error message when trying to do a "hg commit"

I think it means you're trying to commit a file which is >2G. I would
advise you not to do that since you'll have other problem than just
committing (network bandwidth, memory, etc).

>   File "/home/bjarne/lib/python/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 556, in wread
>     data = self.wopener(filename, 'r').read()
> OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string can
> hold
> 

regards,

Benoit

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