Re: [PATCH v6] http.postbuffer: allow full range of ssize_t values

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

David Turner wrote:

> Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos where a server does
> not support chunked encoding, the http postbuffer must sometimes
> exceed two gigabytes.  On a 64-bit system, this is OK: we just malloc
> a larger buffer.
>
> This means that we need to use CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE to set the
> buffer size.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
> ---
>  cache.h       |  1 +
>  config.c      | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  http.c        |  6 ++++--
>  http.h        |  2 +-
>  remote-curl.c | 12 +++++++++---
>  5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

The only unresolved issue was whether we can count on curl being new
enough for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE to be present.  I say
"unresolved" but it is resolved in my mind since git doesn't build and
pass tests with such old versions of curl --- what's unresolved is
formalizing what the oldest curl version is that we want to support.
And that doesn't need to hold this patch hostage.

So for what it's worth,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Thank you.