From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>,
Florian Adamus <florian-adamus@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commiting files larger than 4 GB on Windows
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:29:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lyudyaq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93ccf86d-0090-a311-9825-7e23fd6a4141@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:15:46 +0100")
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
> The real "show stopper" is at the end.
> ...
>
> ==========================
> And it seams as if zlib is the limitation here.
> Unless we include the zlib source code into Git and redefine uLong,
> is there a nice way around this:
> ===========================
>
>
> /usr/include/zconf.h:# define uLong z_uLong
> /usr/include/zconf.h:# define uLongf z_uLongf
> /usr/include/zconf.h:typedef unsigned long uLong; /* 32 bits or more */
> /usr/include/zconf.h:typedef uLong FAR uLongf;
Hmph. Would ef49a7a0 ("zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time",
2011-06-10) and e01503b5 ("zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one
go", 2011-06-10) help us here, though?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-15 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-15 13:00 Commiting files larger than 4 GB on Windows Florian Adamus
2017-03-15 13:48 ` Thomas Braun
2017-03-15 15:59 ` Jeff King
2017-03-15 16:13 ` Jeff King
2017-03-15 18:23 ` Thomas Braun
2017-03-15 21:15 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-03-15 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-03-17 5:29 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-03-18 13:03 ` Thomas Braun
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