From: Matt Cooper <vtbassmatt@xxxxxxxxx> As a small courtesy to users, report what limit was breached. This is especially useful when a push exceeds a server-defined limit, since the user is unlikely to have configured the limit (their host did). Signed-off-by: Matt Cooper <vtbassmatt@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/index-pack.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c index 3c2e6aee3cc..c45273de3b1 100644 --- a/builtin/index-pack.c +++ b/builtin/index-pack.c @@ -323,8 +323,12 @@ static void use(int bytes) if (signed_add_overflows(consumed_bytes, bytes)) die(_("pack too large for current definition of off_t")); consumed_bytes += bytes; - if (max_input_size && consumed_bytes > max_input_size) - die(_("pack exceeds maximum allowed size")); + if (max_input_size && consumed_bytes > max_input_size) { + struct strbuf size_limit = STRBUF_INIT; + strbuf_humanise_bytes(&size_limit, max_input_size); + die(_("pack exceeds maximum allowed size (%s)"), + size_limit.buf); + } } static const char *open_pack_file(const char *pack_name) -- gitgitgadget