Re: Git chokes on large file

>> From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
>
>> I don't know how many commands are hit by this. If you have time and
>> gdb, please put a break point in die_builtin() function and send
>> backtraces for those that fail. You could speed up the process by
>> creating a smaller file and set the environment variable
>> GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT (in kilobytes) to a number lower than that size. If
>> git attempts to allocate a block larger than that limit it'll die.
>
> I don't use Git enough to exercise it well.  And there are dozens of
> commands with hundreds of options.
>
> As someone else has noted, if I run 'git commit -q --no-status', it
> doesn't crash.
>
> It seems that much of Git was coded under the assumption that any file
> could always be held entirely in RAM.  Who made that mistake?  Are
> people so out of touch with reality?