From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:17:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits
Message-ID: <20071213041737.GA23624@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90712121158n674a9044t75ef99473314457c@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:58:33AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> IOWs, the protocol *is* atomic, and this patch does make things
> slightly more brittle. Perhaps require an option to be set before we
> do this?

I started writing a patch to let the user specify the limit, but it was
just too ugly. What user knows the right limit? We are probably better
off just setting the limit at something high and reasonable (like 64K --
it would be nice to get feedback from Markus on what platform he is
using and what is a reasonable value), or just using a tempfile with
xargs, which should figure out the correct value.

-Peff