[PATCH WIP 0/4] Special code path for large blobs

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2009, 05:29 UTC
Message-ID: <1243488550-15357-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Thread "Problem with large files on different OSes" reminds me this. This series is in my repository for quite some time. It addresses adding/checking out large blobs as long as:

 - no conversion will be done
 - blobs are loose (in checkout case)

Together with a patch that prevents large blobs from being packed (something like Dana How sent long ago), and a modification of "lazy clone/remote alternatives" patch to avoid packing large blobs again for sending over network, I think it should make git possible for large files.

Just something to play.

Nguyá»n ThÃ¡i Ngá»c Duy (4):
  convert.c: refactor in order to skip conversion early without looking
    into file content
  sha1_file.c: add streaming interface for reading blobs
  write_entry: use streaming interface for checkout large files
  index_fd: support indexing large files

 cache.h     |   10 +++
 convert.c   |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 entry.c     |   68 +++++++++++++++++
 sha1_file.c |  233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)