Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stephan Hennig wrote: > > Even though Git now makes some efforts to substitute runtime > > for memory to be able to operate with low(er) memory, I think it would > > still be informative for a user that repository and hardware, resp. > > core.deltaBaseCacheLimit, are, say, incompatible. If valuable objects > > have to be discarded due to memory restrictions a warning could be > > issued to make the user aware of this fact, e.g., > > > > Warning! Low memory. Git might be slowing down. > > Well, I disagree. First we don't know how slow git would effectively be > since all (my) concerns so far were totally theoretical. It will still > work better than, say, 'git verify-pack' nevertheless. And git should > just do its best regardless and avoid being needlessly verbose. Actually, this warning may be a good idea. I'll post an RFC patch for it in a few minutes. If people hate the idea, that's what an RFC is for. :) -- Shawn. -- 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
