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Re: Git exhausts memory.

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Apr 6, 2011, 00:34 UTC
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> 
> >> > This is only implemented inside of fast-import. pack-objects does not
> >> > honor this variable.
> >> 
> >> Do you mean perhaps we should?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> 
> I actually was somewhat unhappy to use uintmax_t type in the public header
> for some reason I cannot quite explain (perhaps religious), and was hoping
> somebody with more sanity than myself would stop me or show me a better
> way.

Just use unsigned long. Everywhere we have object size, it is stored as unsigned long.

Nicolas
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Message 17 of 19 in “Git exhausts memory.”
  1. Alif WahidApr 2, 2011
  2. Nicolas PitreApr 2, 2011
  3. Alif WahidApr 3, 2011
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 3, 2011
  5. Alif WahidApr 4, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 4, 2011
  7. David FriesApr 5, 2011
  8. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 5, 2011
  10. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  11. Holger HellmuthApr 5, 2011
  12. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreApr 5, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  16. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  17. Nicolas PitreApr 6, 2011
  18. Jay SoffianApr 6, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoApr 6, 2011

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