From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:05:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git status OOM on mmap of large file
Message-ID: <20190124170544.GB29200@kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190124121427.GB4949@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> I didn't experiment with the smudge side, but I think it uses the same
> apply_filter() code. Which means that yes, it would try to store the
> 11GB in memory before writing it out. And I agree writing it out to a
> file and moving it directly into place is the sanest option there. If
> that doesn't work, spooling to a tempfile and then streaming it into
> place would also work.

I have seen that buffering on the smudge side, yes. In git-annex 
I happen to use the smudge filter in an unusual way that avoids
that being a problem but I think it would affect git-lfs.

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see shy jo