From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:54:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Git as data archive
Message-ID: <60945f9c-d79c-7806-0c5e-3e2affcea001@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <21fcdc5f-955a-e027-0d71-15f476f6162c@gmx.de>

Hi Andreas,

On 06/12/2019 18:54, Andreas Kalz wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using git as archive and versioning also for photos. Apart from
> performance issues, I wanted to ask if there are hard limits and
> configurable limits (how to configure?) for maximum single file size and
> maximum .git archive size (Windows 64 Bit system)?
> Thanks in advance for your answer.
> All the best,
> Andreas

On Git the file size is currently limited to size of `long`, rather than 
`size_t`. Hence on Git-for Windows the size limit is 32bit ~4GiB

Any change will be a big change as it ripples through many places in the 
code base and, for some, will feel 'wrong'. I did some work [1-4] on top 
of those of many others that was almost there, but...

The alternative is git-lfs, which I don't personally use (see [4]).

Philip

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2179
[2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/115
[3] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1063
[4] https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/2434