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

> 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().