Re: large files and low memory
* Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Laziness. Git originally assumed it would only be used for smaller
> source files written by humans. Its easier to write the code as a
> single malloc'd buffer than to stream it. We'd like to fix it, but
> its harder than it sounds. Today we copy the file into a buffer
> before we deflate and compute the SHA-1 as this prevents us from
> getting into a consistency error when the file is modified between
> these two stages.
hmm, perhaps copy it to a temporary file, if it's too large ?
cu
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