git push fails with a memory error in a large repo when using GitHub checkout actions in a Kubernete-CodePudding

We have a Public API that includes a nightly metadata updater run via Cron in a pod deployed with Github Actions and Kubernetes. Overnight the updater pulls fresh metadata from our private API, and then commits those changes and pushes them to itself to refresh both the Github repo and trigger a lint/test/build/deployment.

We're using actions/checkout which fetches a single commit by default.

After a few weeks of updating our ~43,000 record ~700mb repo we started seeing failures at the git push step: error: pack-objects died of signal 9

Enumerating objects: 11754, done.
Counting objects: 100% (10881/10881), done.
error: pack-objects died of signal 9
error: pack-objects died of signal 9
error: remote unpack failed: eof before pack header was fully read

Increasing pod resources didn't help.

CodePudding user response：

After using git fetch --unshallow the pod was able to complete a git commit and git push to re-deploy itself.