large files and low memory

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 09:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20101004092046.GA4382@nibiru.local>

Hi folks,

when adding files which are larger than available physical memory, git performs very slow. Perhaps it has to do with git's mmap()ing the whole file. Is there any way to do it w/o mmap (hoping that might perform a bit better) ?

cu

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