On 10.03.2011 23:18, Jeff King wrote:
1. The fundamental design of git does not prevent storing
arbitrary-sized binary data.
agreed
But I think we are probably in agreement with what needs to be done to
make things better. Specifically, I am thinking of:
agreed
Even worse yet, commits consisting of smaller files but with a
combined size over the limit will also cause out-of-memories.
That generally should work OK. The diff and packing code tries to keep
memory usage reasonable, which generally equates to two times the
largest file. If you have a test case that shows problems, there may
very well be a bug.
I will look into it.
But don't let that stop you if you want to take a look at it;
I'm sure there is plenty of work to go around. :)
Certainly ^_^
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