From: Alexander Miseler <alexander@miseler.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:17:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday
Message-ID: <4D7A2EFC.3020505@miseler.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110310221809.GB15828@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 10.03.2011 23:18, Jeff King wrote:
>    1. The fundamental design of git does not prevent storing
>       arbitrary-sized binary data.

agreed


> But I think we are probably in agreement with what needs to be done to
> make things better. Specifically, I am thinking of:

agreed


>> 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.

I will look into it.


> 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. :)

Certainly ^_^