From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:31:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Support hashing objects larger than 4GB on Windows
Message-ID: <ajOQthRjhD3hRM9w@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2138.v2.git.1781621398.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 02:49:51PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> Philip Oakley has contributed these patches ~4.5 years ago, and they have
> been carried in Git for Windows ever since.
> 
> Now that there are already other patch series flying around that try to
> address various aspects about >4GB objects (which aren't handled well by Git
> until it stops forcing unsigned long to do size_t's job), it seems a good
> time to upstream these patches, too, at long last.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> 
>  * Rebased to current master to resolve the conflicts with
>    ps/odb-source-loose
>  * Dropped the !LONG_IS_64BIT prereq from the added/touched tests, as it is
>    now no longer needed

Thanks, this addresses all of my feedback.

Patrick