Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2012, #03; Mon, 5)

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> * nd/stream-more (2012-03-05) 6 commits
>  - fsck: use streaming API for writing lost-found blobs
>  - show: use streaming API for showing blobs
>  - parse_object: avoid putting whole blob in core
>  - cat-file: use streaming API to print blobs
>  - Add more large blob test cases
>  - streaming: make streaming-write-entry to be more reusable
>
> As I do not think changes in the original larger series that touch
> index-pack and unpack-objects will be ready for the upcoming 1.7.10,
> I've picked up only bits that deal with "use streaming API instead
> of reading things in core" and minimally fixed them up.  These we
> should be able to polish in time.

11/11 should be safe to go too. It simply reads config files so that
parse_object() respects core.bigfilethreshold.

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> The "test cases" patch needs to be trimmed to cover only these, I
> would think.

I'd rather leave it as is. All new test cases are test_expect_failure,
they should not interrupt "make test". If I slack off, somebody may be
annoyed enough with those known breakages to give me a little push.
-- 
Duy