Re: [PATCH 0/6] Support hashing objects larger than 4GB on Windows

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2026, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8q8ovb66.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <4e3430a1-e8ee-47de-b6f0-25abafe3c45b@iee.email>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:

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> On 04/06/2026 18:15, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> Philip Oakley has contributed these patches ~4.5 years ago, and they have
>> been carried in Git for Windows ever since.
>> 
>> Now that there are already other patch series flying around that try to
>> address various aspects about >4GB objects (which aren't handled well by Git
>> until it stops forcing unsigned long to do size_t's job), it seems a good
>> time to upstream these patches, too, at long last.
>
> Yay. I approve this message ;-)

While I very much appreciate the effort to switch to size_t where appropriate (and the places we historically used ulong for size of in-core memory region are the most appropriate places), such an old series crashes with in-flight topics big time. Can we get an update on a more recent base?

No need to rush, as I'll be slowly processing the backlog to catch up with the list traffic for a few days.

Thanks.