From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] http.postbuffer: allow full range of ssize_t values
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:09:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo9wguhhn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170401060116.b2v7tyoi7fcxwbvo@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 1 Apr 2017 02:01:16 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@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').
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-01 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-31 17:26 David Turner
2017-03-31 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-01 6:01 ` Jeff King
2017-04-01 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-04-03 17:03 ` David Turner
2017-04-04 2:01 ` Jeff King
2017-04-04 18:42 ` David Turner
2017-04-04 20:40 ` Jeff King
2017-04-06 17:24 ` Christian Couder
2017-04-07 4:48 ` Jeff King
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