Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 4, 2007, 02:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070104020652.GB18206@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701031737300.4989@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Junio - I suspect "pack-check.c" really shouldn't try to do it as one 
> single humungous "SHA1_Update()" call. It showed one bug on PPC, I 
> wouldn't be surprised if it's implicated now on some other architecture.

It used to do it as one big SHA1_Update() call...

> Shawn - does the pack-file-windowing thing already change that? I'm too 
> lazy to check..

But with the mmap window thing in `next` it does it in window units only. Which the user could configure to be huge, or could configure to be sane. The default when using mmap() is 32 MiB; 1 MiB when using pread() and git_mmap().

-- 
Shawn.

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