> By the way, do you use a 64-bit install? If, for some reason, you're using a 32-bit version, the limit of circa 4 GB (actaually lower) will be "native".
The Git code is merely POSIX compliant (long == size_t; LP64), while Git for Windows uses LLP64 (long=32bits; long long == size_t). Vast swathe's of the Git code use long and size_t interchangeably, meaning that GfW is limited, in the main, to 4GB file sizes and 2GB if (signed) int is used. The Git LFS implementation part has been fixed, as long as the >2GB files are stored in LFS, which does handle the large files. However that isn't pure Git, so hash oids change, etc. Hope that clarifies. On Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 10:42:54 AM UTC Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 06:03:46PM +0000, Skybuck Flying wrote: > > >> Search for "4GB" in this blog post [1] which discusses the GfW 2.35 > release > >> notes. > >> > >> 1. https://github.blog/2022-01-24-highlights-from-git-2-35/ > > > Thanks for the update, however I don't see how this could effect git > > checkout of linux kernel, since most linux source files are only a few > > kilobytes... > > Because Git has several data storage/transfer optimization tricks. One of > them > is using of so-called "pack files" (basically that's the behind-the-scenes > mechanism that allows Git to remain fast and have modest storage > requirements > while its data model states that each commit is a snapshot of the whole > project). Pack files are used for both storing stuff on the filesystem, and > for data transfer; they basically are gzipped archives with added index > files > for fast random access to the contained data. > > My take is that processing of such a pack file hits some limit of the > current > GfW implementation, which has nothing to do with the OS limits (given that > up-to-date API calls are used). > > While I think such problems were actually solved some time ago, some may > still > remain. In any case, it's hard to say something w/o proper bug report - > either > in the project's tracker of at least on the git-for-windows mailing list. > > By the way, do you use a 64-bit install? If, for some reason, you're using > a > 32-bit version, the limit of circa 4 GB (actaually lower) will be "native". > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/45c2c1e3-18e7-4af8-87c9-123544b7699en%40googlegroups.com.
