This is a spin-off from the large file support series I posted some time ago [1]. Both tar and zip format now support streaming large blobs. Although zip will store uncompressed large blobs. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/191605 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (5): archive-tar: turn write_tar_entry into blob-writing only archive-tar: unindent write_tar_entry by one level archive: delegate blob reading to backend archive-tar: stream large blobs to tar file archive-zip: stream large blobs into zip file Documentation/git-archive.txt | 3 + archive-tar.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- archive-zip.c | 56 ++++++++++++- archive.c | 28 +++---- archive.h | 10 ++- t/t1050-large.sh | 8 ++ 6 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) -- 1.7.8.36.g69ee2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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