On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:34:39AM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:17:03 +0000, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Does using create_tempfile there seem like a good path forward to you? > > Would you be interested in working on it (either writing a patch with > > such a fix or a test in t/ to make sure it keeps working)? > > I will look into creating a patch (thanks for the pointers), > but I don't see how to make a testcase for this - pre-filling the > disk doesn't sound like a good idea. Most people probably won't run in > this situation, and then won't have tmp_packs with a dozen GBytes each > lying around. A patch would be very welcome. We have this problem not infrequently at work with development and test VMs, which tend to have a relatively small amount of disk. If you decide that you don't want to create a patch, I'll probably pick it up eventually. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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