From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 06:13:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: .gitconfig folder
Message-ID: <20150528061327.GA3688@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbGyZLx=UYCi5JeSLj7keMhcX_eH3qtWs3O+PidRjye4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:24:47PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> What is our thinking for after-fact recovery attempts?
> Like we try the mmap first, if that fails we just use open to get the
> contents of
> the file. And when open fails, we can still print a nice error message?

For config, I think we could just open and read the file in the first
place. The data is not typically very big (and if you have a 3G config
file and git barfs with "out of memory", I can live with that).

-Peff