From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:11:04 GMT
Subject: Re: malloc fails when dealing with huge files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812111009460.18321@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812101121401.3340@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, git performance with big files would never be wonderful, and 
> things like "git diff" would still end up reading not just the whole 
> file, but _both_versions_ at the same time. Marking the big files as 
> being no-diff might help, though.

Makes me wonder if we should not have a default cut-off, say, 10MB, at 
which files are automatically tagged with the no-diff attribute (unless 
overridden explicitely in .gitattributes)?

Ciao,
Dscho