From: Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why does diff --binary include content of files being deleted?
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:05:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080622040536.GA10813@lifeintegrity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080622035118.GD11793@spearce.org>
On 2008-06-21T23:51:18-0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> In order to apply the diff in reverse we need the old binary data
> in the diff output. So that's why its larger.
Makes sense, thanks. In my use case (where I do not need the reverse
diff) this adds 500+ MB or 43159% overhead.
When I tried to apply the large diff my virtual private server with 512
MB of memory git apply ran out of memory and died. Is there any way to
bound the memory usage of git apply?
/Allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 3:34 Why does diff --binary include content of files being deleted? Allan Wind
2008-06-22 3:51 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-22 4:05 ` Allan Wind [this message]
2008-06-22 4:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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