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Bug report: Corrupt pack file after committing a large file (>4 GB?)

From
YCYu-Hsuan Chen <davidchen9568@gmail.com>
Date
May 26, 2017, 05:51 UTC
Message-ID
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Dear maintainer,

There is a bug where committing a large file corrupts the pack file in Windows. Steps to recreate are:

1. git init
2. stage and commit a file larger than 4 GB (not entirely sure about this size)
3. git checkout -f
The file checked out is much smaller than the original file size.

This behavior is surprising. If git does not support large files, I would at least expect an error message when staging or committing. I have post a question on StackOverflow regrading this issue, and has been confirmed by another user. (question id: 44022897)

Best regards,
David Chen
Next: Konstantin Khomoutov
Message 1 of 3 in “Bug report: Corrupt pack file after committing a large file (>4 GB?)”
  1. Yu-Hsuan ChenMay 26, 2017
  2. Konstantin KhomoutovMay 26, 2017
  3. Torsten BögershausenMay 26, 2017

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