On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:24:47PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > What is our thinking for after-fact recovery attempts? > Like we try the mmap first, if that fails we just use open to get the > contents of > the file. And when open fails, we can still print a nice error message? For config, I think we could just open and read the file in the first place. The data is not typically very big (and if you have a 3G config file and git barfs with "out of memory", I can live with that). -Peff -- 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