From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:36:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030734440.3781@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604030730040.3781@g5.osdl.org>



On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> That said, I think git _does_ have problems with large pack-files. We have 
> some 32-bit issues etc

I should clarify that. git _itself_ shouldn't have any 32-bit issues, but 
the packfile data structure does. The index has 32-bit offsets into 
individual pack-files. 

That's not hugely fundamental, but I didn't expect people to hit it this 
quickly. What kind of project has a 1.5GB pack-file _already_? I hope it's 
fifteen years of history (so that we'll have another fifteen years before 
we'll have to worry about 4GB pack-files ;)

			Linus