Git import fails with: ... Cannot allocate memory

[Jan Rheinländer]

When importing from a github repository, the import fails with:
bzrlib.errors.SocketConnectionError: Unable to connect to SSH host code-import-storage.lp.internal; [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

See this log file:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/579872616/jrheinlaender-lo-imath-ubuntu-impish-7.2-imath.log

A git clone works flawlessly:

git clone https://github.com/jrheinlaender/lo-ubuntu-pkg.git
Klone nach 'lo-ubuntu-pkg' ...
remote: Enumerating objects: 61323, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (61323/61323), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (15825/15825), done.
remote: Total 61323 (delta 45319), reused 61261 (delta 45258), pack-reused 0
Empfange Objekte: 100% (61323/61323), 22.00 MiB | 6.74 MiB/s, fertig.
Löse Unterschiede auf: 100% (45319/45319), fertig.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Depending on what you need this import for, you might consider doing a git-to-git import rather than a git-to-bzr import; this is typically a lot simpler and more likely to work.

[Jan Rheinländer (jrheinlaender)]

Thank you for pointing out the possibility of the git-to-git import. I had not seen this possibility. The git-to-git import works.

From my point of view the bug can be closed, although this is more of a workaround than a solution.