De-committing versions

Question

After "Committing" a number of changes from the local database, I tried to push to the main database and got an error message saying "... remote: abort: No space left on device".  We have checked the main database and there is plenty of space allocated to this directory.

What can I do to address this?

Michael Robinso10 · Answer

Thanks Seth.  That was helpful.  (Apologies for delay in responding - we had a big launch to get through)

We have checked the remote directory and there is more than enough space.

That means that the Push is too big - what is the maximum size of a Push?  We have previously been able to push 50MB files. The problem Push was less than that, but had multiple files organised in folders (total push size was of the order of 20MB).

How do we now go about reloading some relatively large changes?  One folder at a time?

Seth · Answer

You should have your technical people check the temp directory on the computer hosting the main database, not your own computer.

The problem in Kieran's link basically boils down to this: the data you are pushing gets decompressed in the remote's temp directory. If there isn't enough room to unpack it, you get the error. This could be because the directory is full, or because the push is just too big.

Michael Robinso10 · Answer

Hi Kieran

Thank you for your response.  We are using a Mercurial system.  The fis is beyond my technical capabilities so I referred it to our technical people.

As a first step they suggested I clear my /tmp folder.  While this seemed to work to start we then had a merge issue, which once fixed we then got the same error message as before.

So the issue is not yet resolved and I still cannot "push".  It will have to wait a few weeks now as I have some deadlines to meet and can't keep sending time on this issue. We are jsut about to deploy and market a major update to our system, so we will probably get back to this in two weeks.  Sorry if that creates issues for your system.

Thanks again

Michael Robinson