From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:58:56 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree rename detection bug
Message-ID: <43290DA0.3030402@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <17192.56103.803096.526568@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> I assume you're compiling git as 32-bit executables on your G5.  I
> don't see any reason why the git binaries would need to be 64-bit.
> 

Well, git seems to assume it can mmap() the entirety of any file under 
its control, so a 64-bit git could handle larger files.

Still, I'm using 32-bit git on ppc64.

	-hpa