Git init --bare giving error fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device

Question

I have checked the available memory and looks like there is plenty of it:

vagrant@homestead:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2001        869       1131         21         22        252
-/+ buffers/cache:        594       1406
Swap:          767          0        767

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I found the issue. It was being caused by git trying to create a config file in the directory that a /config directory already existed.

I have now removed the /config directory and was able to run git init --bare

However, this is a problem with all of my apps as they all contain /config directories. Does anyone know a workaround?