Re: Commiting files larger than 4 GB on Windows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2017, 21:29 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4lyudyaq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <93ccf86d-0090-a311-9825-7e23fd6a4141@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:

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> The real "show stopper" is at the end.
> ...
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> And it seams as if zlib is the limitation here.
> Unless we include the zlib source code into Git and redefine uLong,
> is there a nice way around this:
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> /usr/include/zconf.h:#  define uLong                 z_uLong
> /usr/include/zconf.h:#  define uLongf                z_uLongf
> /usr/include/zconf.h:typedef unsigned long  uLong; /* 32 bits or more */
> /usr/include/zconf.h:typedef uLong FAR uLongf;

Hmph. Would ef49a7a0 ("zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time", 2011-06-10) and e01503b5 ("zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one go", 2011-06-10) help us here, though?