[PATCH 0/3] Large transactions in git

On Git Merge Wilhelm Bierbaum from Twitter made clear that we'd have problems with large transactions in git. As I have been working on that series a few months ago and it still bugs me, I thought about reviving the series.

However the series got stale a few months ago because we were not sure how to do it right. The first few patches were deemed uncontroversial though, which I am resending now.

The first patch contains tests telling us what needs fixing. The second patch renames the precondition for other tests, as ULIMIT is a bit generic. The third patch removes the `lock_fd` field from struct ref_lock which was duplicate information.

That said, this series is not fixing the actual issue, but I'd guess having these patches is step forward actually.

Thanks, Stefan

Stefan Beller (3):
  update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
  t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
  refs.c: remove lock_fd from struct ref_lock

 refs.c                | 16 ++++++----------
 t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t7004-tag.sh        |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)