Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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That said, I think git _does_ have problems with large pack-files. We have 
some 32-bit issues etc

I should clarify that. git _itself_ shouldn't have any 32-bit issues, but 
the packfile data structure does. The index has 32-bit offsets into 
individual pack-files. 

That's not hugely fundamental,...

Linus _does_ understand what he means, but let me clarify and
outline a possible future direction.

[...]

For the record, the delta code also has 32-bit limitations of its own 
presently.  It cannot encode a delta against a buffer which is larger 
than 4GB.

I however made sure the byte 0 could be used as a prefix for future 
encoding extensions, like 64-bit file offsets for example.


Nicolas