Re: Problem with large files on different OSes

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Christopher Jefferson wrote:
> On 27 May 2009, at 17:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll see if I can make us handle the "big file without diff" case  
>>> better by chunking.
 
>> So "don't do it then" or "make sure you are 64-bit and have lots of
>> memory if you do it" may well be the right solution.
> 
> Thank you for that description of the problem, I can see how hard it is.
> 
> Perhaps it might be useful to think about how to codify "don't do it  
> then" in a reasonably simple, automatic way?
> 
> I've been trying to write a pre-commit hook (I think that's the right  
> place?) which would refuse commits larger than some file size (512MB  
> as a random number I decided), but am having trouble getting it to  
> work right, and generally. Would such a thing be easy, and would that  
> be the right place to put it?
> 
> While I wouldn't suggest this become default, providing such a hook,  
> and describing why you might want to use it, would seem to avoid the  
> accidental part of the problem.

Hmmm... this is another issue (beside checking for portability of
filenames) that would be neatly solved if there was 'pre-add' hook,
rather than trying to use 'pre-commit' hook for that.  It should not,
I think, be that hard to add it...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland