Error while reindexing – Java heap space / Object too large, rejecting the pack

Problem

The Git Integration for Jira application uses the JGit library which does not support objects over 2GB in size stored in git repositories.

Diagnosis

Jira admins will see an error in the Git Integration for Jira app interface – for example:

or Jira admins will see a message similar to the one below in the Jira /application-logs/atlassian-jira.log:

Error

Сan't auto-deploy a new repository https://server/project/repository.git
com.bigbrassband.jira.git.exceptions.InvalidRemoteOperationException: Specified origin https://server/project/repository.git is incorrect or not supported
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.gitmanager.MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.setupRepository(MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.java:800)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.gitmanager.MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.deployRepository(MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.java:868)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.DoSynchronizationOfAggregatedRepoTask.createNewRepository(DoSynchronizationOfAggregatedRepoTask.java:156)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.DoSynchronizationOfAggregatedRepoTask.run(DoSynchronizationOfAggregatedRepoTask.java:117)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.BigReindexTask.synchronize(BigReindexTask.java:185)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.BigReindexTask.run(BigReindexTask.java:95)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.async.AsyncProcessorImpl$AsyncTaskWrapper.run(AsyncProcessorImpl.java:110)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.TransportException: Object too large (2,271,263,009 bytes), rejecting the pack. Max object size limit is 2,147,483,639 bytes.
        at org.eclipse.jgit.api.FetchCommand.call(FetchCommand.java:254)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.fetch(CloneCommand.java:306)
        at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.call(CloneCommand.java:200)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.gitmanager.MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.runCloneCommand(MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.java:693)
        at com.bigbrassband.jira.git.services.gitmanager.MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.setupRepository(MultipleGitRepositoryManagerImpl.java:789)
        ... 11 more

Solutions

• Remove objects larger than 2GB from the git repository history. See following articles for suggestions:

  • Removing large files from Git without losing history

  • GitHub: Removing files from a repository’s history

  • GitLab: Reducing the repository size using Git

  • BFG Repo-Cleaner

• Move large files to GitLFS which is supported by the Git Integration for Jira app.

• Filter out the repository from the special integrations (GitHub, GitLab, AWS CodeCommit, Microsoft TFS/Azure DevOps/VSTS, etc) using Custom API Path or JMESPath Filters.

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