From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: large files and low memory
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 02:59:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005005902.GC2768@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=nzyRgiBL07f2oeyjdUc8XnaKbJEJ+k8_g9rQ1@mail.gmail.com>
* Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Laziness. Git originally assumed it would only be used for smaller
> source files written by humans. Its easier to write the code as a
> single malloc'd buffer than to stream it. We'd like to fix it, but
> its harder than it sounds. Today we copy the file into a buffer
> before we deflate and compute the SHA-1 as this prevents us from
> getting into a consistency error when the file is modified between
> these two stages.
hmm, perhaps copy it to a temporary file, if it's too large ?
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 9:20 large files and low memory Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-04 18:05 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-04 18:24 ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-04 18:57 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-05 0:59 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2010-10-05 7:41 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 8:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-05 8:17 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 11:29 ` Alex Riesen
2010-10-05 11:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-05 11:55 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-05 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-05 10:13 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-05 19:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-04 18:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 19:11 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-04 19:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 10:59 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-05 20:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05 20:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 21:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05 0:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 1:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-05 1:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 7:35 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 13:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 0:50 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 19:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05 22:51 ` Enrico Weigelt
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