Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

All that extra memory is just for SHA1 commit ID information. 

I don't see where that might be.  The only thing that the paranoia check 
triggers is:

	foo = read_sha1_file(blah);
	memcmp(foo with bar);
	free(foo);

So where is that commit ID information actually stored when using 
read_sha1_file()?

That might just be the mmap code in sha1_file.c.  We are mmaping
the existing packfile, to fetch the object.  That counts as virtual
memory.  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.