From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:43:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] receive-pack: not receive pack file with large object
Message-ID: <xmqqv92g7fhm.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YVaw6agcPNclhws8@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Unlike the patches here, ours is limiting the logical size of an object
> (so a 100MB blob limit is on the uncompressed size). It happens in
> sha1_object(), where we have that size.

I like it when I hear people doing things in the "right" way (the
definition of being "right" in this case is to apply the limit to
the size that is end-user facing---otherwise you cannot justify an
arbitrary limit).  ;-)