From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:42:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJvs0UKO_NLbWAi8Y8XRJJ0v5kdjf9BN0V=pN_9yYrDp7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170330202917.24281-1-dturner@twosigma.com>

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos, the http postbuffer
> must sometimes exceed two gigabytes.  On a 64-bit system, this is OK:
> we just malloc a larger buffer.

I'm slightly curious what server you are pushing to that needs the
entire thing buffered to compute a Content-Length, rather than using
Transfer-Encoding: chunked. Most Git-over-HTTP should be accepting
Transfer-Encoding: chunked when the stream exceeds postBuffer.