From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor Makefile and local-pull.c edits for Darwin Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:12:00 -0700 Message-ID: <428123A0.3070000@zytor.com> References: <20050510021105.53984.qmail@web41213.mail.yahoo.com> <428038D0.5000706@zytor.com> <7vpsvzpolp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4280C883.6080209@zytor.com> <4280CAC6.4000805@zytor.com> <7vekceyeo9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Allen , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 10 23:13:49 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVc24-0005pQ-I6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:12:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261808AbVEJVSz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 17:18:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261790AbVEJVPU (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 17:15:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:25988 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261814AbVEJVMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 17:12:23 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4ALC6Fs026796 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 May 2005 14:12:06 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vekceyeo9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>>>"HPA" == H Peter Anvin 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