On Thu, 8 May 2008, epankala@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I received "fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed" error when I tried to > check in file of ~2.5G There's two issues there. One is that a lot of what git does is simply "whole file at a time". The diff machinery, and a lot of the core stuff, simply just expects to be able to mmap() or read the whole file in one go. So on a 32-bit architecture, you'll generally be limited to the size of the address space, not to anything else. The other thing is then that (partly because of the above) there probably are places where we haven't been as careful about size-type things as we could have been. A lot of the code uses size_t, but I bet not everything does. Linus -- 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
