Re: Git chokes on large file

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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>

> You need to have enough memory (virtual is fine if you have enough
> time) to do fsck.  Some part of index-pack could be refactored into
> a common helper function that could be called from fsck, but I think
> it would be a lot of work.

How much memory is "enough"?  And how is it that fsck is coded so that
the available RAM is a limit on which repositories can be checked?
Did someone forget that RAM may be considerably smaller than the
amount of data a program may have to deal with?

Dale
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