Re: [PATCH 0/6] Support hashing objects larger than 4GB on Windows

> Philip Oakley has contributed these patches ~4.5 years ago, and they have
> been carried in Git for Windows ever since.
> 
> Now that there are already other patch series flying around that try to
> address various aspects about >4GB objects (which aren't handled well by Git
> until it stops forcing unsigned long to do size_t's job), it seems a good
> time to upstream these patches, too, at long last.

> 
> Philip Oakley (6):
>   hash-object: demonstrate a >4GB/LLP64 problem
>   object-file.c: use size_t for header lengths
>   hash algorithms: use size_t for section lengths
>   hash-object --stdin: verify that it works with >4GB/LLP64
>   hash-object: add another >4GB/LLP64 test case
>   hash-object: add a >4GB/LLP64 test case using filtered input
> 
>  object-file.c          | 18 +++++++++---------
>  object-file.h          |  4 ++--
>  sha1dc_git.c           |  3 +--
>  sha1dc_git.h           |  2 +-
>  t/t1007-hash-object.sh | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 9ac3f193c05c2237e2b14ebaa1149e9fc8a1abe0
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2138%2Fdscho%2FPhilipOakley%2Fhashliteral_t-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2138/dscho/PhilipOakley/hashliteral_t-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2138