Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:26:31PM -0400, David Turner wrote: > >> Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos, the http postbuffer >> must sometimes exceed two gigabytes. On a 64-bit system, this is OK: >> we just malloc a larger buffer. > > I'm still not sure why a 2GB post-buffer is necessary. It sounds like > something is broken in your setup. Large pushes should be sent chunked. > > I know broken setups are a fact of life, but this feels like a really > hacky work-around.
Yeah, I tend to share that "Huh? We do not want to do this, but what forces us to?" puzzlement. Tentatively demoted to 'pu' (out of 'jch'--candidates to go to 'next').
