On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> 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 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html