From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Kees-Jan Dijkzeul <k.j.dijkzeul@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:11:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604071002530.2215@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhd55ls24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > 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,...
>
> Linus _does_ understand what he means, but let me clarify and
> outline a possible future direction.
>
[...]
For the record, the delta code also has 32-bit limitations of its own
presently. It cannot encode a delta against a buffer which is larger
than 4GB.
I however made sure the byte 0 could be used as a prefix for future
encoding extensions, like 64-bit file offsets for example.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-07 14:11 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
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 [this message]
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
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2006-04-06 20:57 linux
2006-04-06 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 3:05 ` linux
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