git - Limit on what can be stored?

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I have been having intermittent issues with git. I am using it to version all of my files that are not volatile.

The error: fatal: confused by unstable object source data for

Now, I originally had this problem on another drive and when I did, I saw an error in dmesg indicating that EXT-4 was unable to read some meta-data. That led me to believe the drive was failing. So, I unmounted the drive and ran the fsck tools and everything checked out okay. Do I need to do anything more in depth since git is complaining?

Secondly, I just got this error on a newer drive and did NOT get any errors in dmesg indicating any problems reading meta-data in the file system. I am certain that no other processes are writing to it as I used lsof.

Any ideas on how to proceed? I am storing large, binary files in one case (several GB) and a mix of files in the other.

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Walter

`git fsck --full` is always worth a try to test the consistency of the git storage. Also, checking the RAM of the machine is often worth a try :) — I GIVE CRAP ANSWERS, Jan 25 '11 at 01:59
@Mohamed: I used to edit everyone's questions to fix that, and Git vs. git (it's git, not Git), but it's a losing battle... — Cascabel, Jan 25 '11 at 06:40
I have 6GB of ram and NO swap, I am guessing that I probably need swap for this to work as my file is larger than 6GB ... — Walter, Jan 25 '11 at 20:09
@Jefromi: I don't care about the spelling, but it seems to me that http://www.git-scm.com says `Git` - except in the logo of the page. — Frerich Raabe, Jan 25 '11 at 20:34
@Frerich: Looks like I got burned by something I read in a git manpage or commit message somewhere. My bad. — Cascabel, Jan 25 '11 at 21:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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Either you are trying to add always-changing volatile file or something low-level is failing.

git says "fatal: confused by unstable object source data"

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answered Jan 25 '11 at 20:25

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Raphaël G. · Answer 2 · 2018-04-10T07:03:02.547

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Maybe something to do with Copy-On-Write feature in ext4 ?

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/42299634/7491491

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answered Feb 17 '17 at 13:56

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