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Re: [PATCH] minor Makefile and local-pull.c edits for Darwin

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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May 10, 2005, 21:05 UTC
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>>>>> "HPA" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

HPA> That being said, there are also a whole bunch of assumptions that any HPA> object can be memory-mapped *plus* fit uncompressed in HPA> memory... that's obviously not going to be the case for large files.

HPA> On the other hand, one has to start cleaning up somewhere...

I agree to that, but on the other hand one also has to know where to stop. The primary purpose of GIT being to manage the source files for the Linux kernel project, not worrying about _huge_ files that would cause mmap+uncompressed or st.st_size not fitting in unsigned long may just be fine.

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  1. minor Makefile and local-pull.c edits for DarwinMark Allen, May 10, 2005
  2. Daniel BarkalowMay 10, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinMay 10, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinMay 10, 2005
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  8. Junio C HamanoMay 10, 2005
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