Git Fail

$ git add file-that-is-1.4GB
fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory

Is that it? Git just can't handle files that are that big?

Yep. That's it. Here are other people who have found the same thing:

http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=219
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-634946.html

I guess this is one more way in which SVN is better than Git. I still like Git, but it's by no means better than SVN in every way.