From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles? Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Kees-Jan Dijkzeul , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 03 16:37:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FQQBE-0007pb-Q7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:37:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751590AbWDCOg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:36:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751608AbWDCOg6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:36:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:42701 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751590AbWDCOg5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:36:57 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k33EasEX028630 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:36:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k33Earl1019494; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:36:53 -0700 To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.72__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.133 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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