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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Exception: OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes","articleBody":"Hi,\r\n\r\ni tried to import a large repository (export from a different gitlab instance) which is 2,8GB in size (large LFS objects in there)\r\n\r\nimporting fails:\r\n\r\n```\r\n    i_gl.projects.import_project( open( export_file, 'rb' ), e_project.name, namespace = e_project.namespace[ 'full_path' ], overwrite = True )\r\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gitlab/v4/objects.py\", line 3698, in import_project\r\n    files=files, **kwargs)\r\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gitlab/__init__.py\", line 600, in http_post\r\n    post_data=post_data, files=files, **kwargs)\r\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gitlab/__init__.py\", line 481, in http_request\r\n    result = self.session.send(prepped, timeout=timeout, **settings)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py\", line 596, in send\r\n    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py\", line 423, in send\r\n    timeout=timeout\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py\", line 595, in urlopen\r\n    chunked=chunked)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py\", line 363, in _make_request\r\n    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1039, in request\r\n    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1073, in _send_request\r\n    self.endheaders(body)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 1035, in endheaders\r\n    self._send_output(message_body)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 879, in _send_output\r\n    self.send(msg)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py\", line 855, in send\r\n    self.sock.sendall(data)\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py\", line 701, in sendall\r\n    v = self.send(data[count:])\r\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py\", line 667, in send\r\n    v = self._sslobj.write(data)\r\nOverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes\r\n```\r\n\r\nany idea how to solve that?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Flow86","@type":"Person","name":"Flow86"},"datePublished":"2018-11-27T11:34:45.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/646/python-gitlab/issues/646"}