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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:42:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJvs0UKO_NLbWAi8Y8XRJJ0v5kdjf9BN0V=pN_9yYrDp7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170330202917.24281-1-dturner@twosigma.com>

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:29 PM, David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com> 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 slightly curious what server you are pushing to that needs the
entire thing buffered to compute a Content-Length, rather than using
Transfer-Encoding: chunked. Most Git-over-HTTP should be accepting
Transfer-Encoding: chunked when the stream exceeds postBuffer.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-30 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-30 20:29 [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t David Turner
2017-03-30 20:42 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2017-03-30 20:59   ` David Turner
2017-03-30 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-31  4:22 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-03-31 15:52   ` David Turner

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