Re: malloc fails when dealing with huge files

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

However, git performance with big files would never be wonderful, and 
things like "git diff" would still end up reading not just the whole 
file, but _both_versions_ at the same time. Marking the big files as 
being no-diff might help, though.

Makes me wonder if we should not have a default cut-off, say, 10MB, at 
which files are automatically tagged with the no-diff attribute (unless 
overridden explicitely in .gitattributes)?

Ciao,
Dscho