Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday
On 10.03.2011 23:18, Jeff King wrote:
> 1. The fundamental design of git does not prevent storing
> arbitrary-sized binary data.
> But I think we are probably in agreement with what needs to be done to
> make things better. Specifically, I am thinking of:
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>> Even worse yet, commits consisting of smaller files but with a
>> combined size over the limit will also cause out-of-memories.
>
> That generally should work OK. The diff and packing code tries to keep
> memory usage reasonable, which generally equates to two times the
> largest file. If you have a test case that shows problems, there may
> very well be a bug.
> But don't let that stop you if you want to take a look at it;
> I'm sure there is plenty of work to go around. :)