Re: [PATCH 1/2] archive-tar: write extended headers for file sizes >= 8GB

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:37:33AM -0400,  Jeff King wrote:
> We could ship just the resulting compressed object data as a
> loose object, but even that takes 64MB. So sadly, this code
> path remains untested in the test suite.
Additionally compress the object data, and insert it for the purpose of
testing? It's still an expensive test time-wise, but repeated
gzip compression on zeros does still help; to that end, here's the
pieces to add a testcase while only being <9KiB.

t5005-archive-hugefile.sh:
...
mkdir t
zcat t5005-barerepo-64gb-obj.tar.gz.gz | tar xzf - -C t
GIT_DIR=t git archive HEAD | head -c 10000 | tar tvf - 2>/dev/null
...

Test repo attached, it's only 8KiB.

Test repo can be recreated with:
truncate -s 64g bigfile
git add bigfile # takes 10 mins
git commit -q -m foo # takes another 10 minutes
tar cf - -C .git . |gzip -9 --no-name |gzip -9f --no-name >barerepo.tar.gz.gz


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