RE: [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t

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GitLab.  I can't speak to our particular configuration of it -- but if you have a specific question about what the config is, I can ask our gitlab admins.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Pearce [mailto:spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:42 PM
> To: David Turner <David.Turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: git <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos, the http postbuffer
> > must sometimes exceed two gigabytes.  On a 64-bit system, this is OK:
> > we just malloc a larger buffer.
> 
> I'm slightly curious what server you are pushing to that needs the entire thing
> buffered to compute a Content-Length, rather than using
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked. Most Git-over-HTTP should be accepting
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked when the stream exceeds postBuffer.




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