From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor Makefile and local-pull.c edits for Darwin
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:12:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <428123A0.3070000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vekceyeo9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>>>>"HPA" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>
> HPA> That being said, there are also a whole bunch of assumptions that any
> HPA> object can be memory-mapped *plus* fit uncompressed in
> HPA> memory... that's obviously not going to be the case for large files.
>
> HPA> On the other hand, one has to start cleaning up somewhere...
>
> I agree to that, but on the other hand one also has to know
> where to stop. The primary purpose of GIT being to manage the
> source files for the Linux kernel project, not worrying about
> _huge_ files that would cause mmap+uncompressed or st.st_size
> not fitting in unsigned long may just be fine.
>
Using the correct data types is a good start, though.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-10 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-10 2:11 [PATCH] minor Makefile and local-pull.c edits for Darwin Mark Allen
2005-05-10 4:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-10 6:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10 4:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-10 6:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10 14:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-10 14:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-10 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-10 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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