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From: Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Does git load index file into memory?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:22:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd4kYCTuLMZ6UDk49MASbZfhwjgUcmfeyd6jZS5QO9-LnzLCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

Does git load the entire index file into memory when it wants to
edit/view it? I ask because I wonder if this can become a problem with
the index file becomes arbitrarily large, like for the Linux kernel.

Thanks,
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Farhan Khan
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             reply	other threads:[~2018-10-12 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-12 16:22 Farhan Khan [this message]
2018-10-14  9:59 ` Does git load index file into memory? Thomas Gummerer

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