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Git "fatal: Out of memory" Error

If you see the below when trying to clone a git repo, then there are a few things to try:

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remote: Counting objects: 690, done.
remote: warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory
remote: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 46164118 bytes)
error: git upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
fatal: git upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

Try

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git config pack.windowMemory 100m
git config pack.packSizeLimit 100m
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