From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:48:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Message-ID: <4D9B47D2.6050909@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinU7x16yp+y-HW9UhkVn9SftOJCcA@mail.gmail.com>

On 04.04.2011 16:57, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Alif Wahid<alif.wahid@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On 4 April 2011 01:18, Nicolas Pitre<nico@fluxnic.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Something you can try is to simply tell Git not to attempt any delta
>>> compression on those tar files using gitattributes (see the man page of
>>> the same name).
>
> Should we change the default to not delta if a blob exceeds predefined
> limit (say 128M)? People who deliberately wants to delta them can
> still set delta attr. 1.8.0 material maybe?


Isn't this already done with the config variable core.bigFileThreshold ?

documentation says: "Files larger than this size are stored deflated, 
without attempting delta compression. ... Default is 512 MiB on all 
platforms."