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Re: 64-bit support.

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Kent R. Spillner <kspillner@acm.org>
Date
Nov 14, 2013, 14:40 UTC
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Can you be more specific about the limitation you suspect you are hitting?  32,768 is not the "max 32-bit value."
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> On Nov 14, 2013, at 6:58, Лежанкин Иван  <abyss.7@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Do you plan to implement the 64-bit support in git? - Right now I have
> a problems sometimes with a huge repo and renaming detection. If I
> merge more than 32768 files at once, then the renaming detection
> fails, because of limitation inside git. The limitation is put by max
> 32-bit value.
> 
> I tweaked sources locally, to use 64-bit value as a number of merging
> files - generally, it works. But I'm not so brave to try to replace it
> everywhere in git.
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  1. Лежанкин ИванNov 14, 2013
  2. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 14, 2013
  3. Kent R. SpillnerNov 14, 2013
  4. Лежанкин ИванNov 14, 2013
  5. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 14, 2013
  6. Jeff KingNov 14, 2013

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