From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:33:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time
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In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikmLDZj2qdkmF-kBUkB33o9EjtBpg@mail.gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The size of objects we read from the repository and data we try to put
>> into the repository are represented in "unsigned long", so that on larger
>> architectures we can handle objects that weigh more than 4GB.
>
> shouldn't this be "size_t" instead of "unsigned long"?

No, this must be unsigned long as that is the internal type we use.

Implementation of git on 32-bit platforms has always been limited to 4GB
from day one. This topic is not about changing it.