From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:05:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Git chokes on large file
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1405281200570.32611@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <201405281847.s4SIlW5K027160@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Dale R. Worley wrote:

>> From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
>
>> Git was designed to track source code, there are warts that show up
>> in the implementation when you use individual files >4GB
>
> I'd expect that if you want to deal with files over 100k, you should
> assume that it doesn't all fit in memory.

well, as others noted, the problem is actually caused by doing the diffs, and 
that is something that is a very common thing to do with source code.

And I would assume that files of several MB would be able to fit in memory 
(again, this was assumed to be for development, and compilers take a lot of ram 
to run, so having enough ram to hold any individual source file while the 
compiler is _not_ using ram doesn't seem likely to be a problem)

David Lang