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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Kees-Jan Dijkzeul <k.j.dijkzeul@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:36:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030734440.3781@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030730040.3781@g5.osdl.org>



On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> That said, I think git _does_ have problems with large pack-files. We have 
> some 32-bit issues etc

I should clarify that. git _itself_ shouldn't have any 32-bit issues, but 
the packfile data structure does. The index has 32-bit offsets into 
individual pack-files. 

That's not hugely fundamental, but I didn't expect people to hit it this 
quickly. What kind of project has a 1.5GB pack-file _already_? I hope it's 
fifteen years of history (so that we'll have another fifteen years before 
we'll have to worry about 4GB pack-files ;)

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-03  9:46 Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles? Kees-Jan Dijkzeul
2006-04-03 13:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-03 14:26   ` Morten Welinder
2006-04-03 14:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-03 14:36     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-04-05 13:24       ` Kees-Jan Dijkzeul
2006-04-05 14:14         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-05 21:08           ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-05 23:27             ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-04-06  0:34               ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-06  4:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07  8:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07  8:27         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-07 14:11         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-07 18:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 18:46             ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-03 15:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-03 14:38 ` Alex Riesen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-06 20:57 linux
2006-04-06 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07  3:05   ` linux

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