Clone/Pull on shared hosting with limited memory results in: "fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed" message (BB-4465)

Hi,

I've encountered this problem 3 times now in the last few months, so I am surprised that I haven't been able to find anything regarding this in your documentation.

In essence it seems the remote repo (Bitbucket) decides that it needs to be repacked and on a shared host with limited memory this results in the following messages:

{{{
#!shell

remote: Counting objects: 9108, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7317/7317), done.
remote: Total 9108 (delta 2579), reused 7839 (delta 1518)
Receiving objects: 100% (9108/9108), 120.75 MiB | 795 KiB/s, done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 177183921 bytes)
fatal: index-pack failed
}}}

I've found this on Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4826639/repack-of-git-repository-fails

And it seems to be spot on describing this problem. The proposed solution here is to change the config in the remote (Bitbucket) but as far as I can see this is not anything I can do??

Any suggestions? Thanks for your time!!