Re: Mozilla .git tree

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 3, 2006, 03:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20060903035409.GA29756@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vejuuyon7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> >> > Sure the scheme you outlined allows a 64 bit difference but
> >> > uncompressed objects already can't be larger than 2**32-1...
> >> 
> >> Where do we have that limitation?
> >
> > sha1_file.c uses "unsigned long" a lot to deal with size of an
> > object, deflated.  iirc unsigned long is only 32 bits even in many
> > 64 bit architectures.  Or am I wrong?
> 
> Of course 4G .idx (\377tOc) patch would update them to u64.
> What is the problem?

None then.  I must have missed that.

Besides this issue is moot as you are removing it from the .idx.

Sorry for the noise.  :-)

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Shawn.

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