Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary

> Too large files may lead to failure to allocate memory. If it happens
> here, it could impact quite a few commands that involve
> diff. Moreover, too large files are inefficient to compare anyway (and
> most likely non-text), so mark them binary and skip looking at their
> content.
>
> Noticed-by: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/config.txt        |  3 ++-
>  Documentation/gitattributes.txt |  4 ++--
>  diff.c                          | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  diffcore.h                      |  1 +
>  t/t1050-large.sh                |  4 ++++
>  5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index c55c22a..53df40e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ core.bigFileThreshold::
>         Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
>         attempting delta compression.  Storing large files without
>         delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
> -       slight expense of increased disk usage.
> +       slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files
> +       larger than this size are allways treated as binary.