I did some debugging, and it seems CC_SHA1_Update (used by write_sha1_file_prepare if APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO is defined in the Makefile) takes a uint32_t as a "length" parameter, which explains why it stops working at 4GiB (UINT_MAX+1). In the OS X 10.11 SDK header CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h, we have: typedef uint32_t CC_LONG; /* 32 bit unsigned integer */ //... extern int CC_SHA1_Update(CC_SHA1_CTX *c, const void *data, CC_LONG len) A possible fix would be to either call SHA1_Update with a maximum of UINT_MAX, looping if necessary. Or have a compatibility SHA1_Update for OS X which can handle data longer than UINT_MAX. I'm not sure what the git maintainers would prefer. Regards, Filipe On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I first noticed this with "2.4.9 (Apple Git-60)", but it reproduces > with git built from 37023ba381b6d251d7140a997b39b566dbc63c42. > > Create two files with just 0s: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 espindola staff 4294967296 28 Oct 11:09 exactly-4gib > -rw-r--r-- 1 espindola staff 4294967295 28 Oct 11:09 one-less-than-4gib > > > and run > > git init > git add one-less-than-4gib > git commit -m bar > git fsck > git add exactly-4gib > git commit -m bar > git fsck > > The first fsck will run with no problems, but the second one fails: > > error: packed cfdaf54c9ccfd8f5e4cee562f7d5f92df13d3106 from > .git/objects/pack/pack-ff08480fd7f767b6bd0aeb559f0f5dea2245b0b3.pack > is corrupt > > Using the very same revision on freebsd doesn't cause any errors. > > Cheers, > Rafael -- 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