Re: Confused over packfile and index design

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Date

Apr 9, 2011, 14:45 UTC

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On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:30, Steven E. Harris <seh@panix.com> wrote:

> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>> Its meant to tell us how many bytes to malloc() in order to hold the
>> result of the libz inflate() call when the object is being read from
>> the packfile. That way we don't under or over allocate the result
>> buffer.
>
> Does Git always inflate the objects into an in-memory buffer?

Yes.

> As the
> size of these objects can be very large (given the variable-length size
> encoding), is there any provision to inflate the object to a temporary
> file?

-- 
Shawn.