From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:57:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree rename detection bug
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509151647380.31877@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <43290DA0.3030402@zytor.com>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > 
> > I assume you're compiling git as 32-bit executables on your G5.  I
> > don't see any reason why the git binaries would need to be 64-bit.
> > 
> 
> Well, git seems to assume it can mmap() the entirety of any file under its
> control, so a 64-bit git could handle larger files.

But beware that the delta code would break since it currently won't cope 
with any file offset larger than 32 bits.  I reserved the zero byte to 
prefix any extended encoding but felt it wasn't really needed yet and I 
just didn't bother coding it.


Nicolas