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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: malloc fails when dealing with huge files
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Hi,

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, git performance with big files would never be wonderful, and 
> things like "git diff" would still end up reading not just the whole 
> file, but _both_versions_ at the same time. Marking the big files as 
> being no-diff might help, though.

Makes me wonder if we should not have a default cut-off, say, 10MB, at 
which files are automatically tagged with the no-diff attribute (unless 
overridden explicitely in .gitattributes)?

Ciao,
Dscho