Re: Git as electronic lab notebook

[Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>]

On Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 22:15:00 (-0500) Nicolas Pitre writes:
>On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Johan 't Hart wrote:
>
>> Is git able to handle 4Gig files? I've heard git loads every file completely
>> in memory before handling it...
>
>Right.  Sowith current Git you will be able to deal with 4GB files only 
>if you have a 64-bit machine and more than 4GB of RAM.

??

% uname -a
Linux pppp 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 11:14:59 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
% cat /proc/meminfo  | grep MemTotal
MemTotal:        3095296 kB
% mkdir gogle
% cd gogle
% git init
% dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile.tst bs=1k count=4700000
% git add *
% git commit -a -m new
[master (root-commit) 35a25be] new
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 zerofile.tst
% git --version
git version 1.6.5.7

Seems ok to me...

Though, I find this interesting:

% git log -p
commit 35a25be3fff2f8bbd6ec22c94b9a5c0d66053d21
Author: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 19 22:38:48 2009 -0600

    new

diff --git a/zerofile.tst b/zerofile.tst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5bd39d
Binary files /dev/null and b/zerofile.tst differ


Bill