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| author | Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2014-08-16 07:08:05 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-08-18 21:16:45 +0400 |
| commit | 6bf3b813486b4528feca39d599c256f662defc14 (patch) | |
| tree | af16bbb30e82a1beff126bb686d6d478c2f9eaa7 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | 8e5dd3d654ebb9e86e06b9ef5ca86bd6ebf44de1 (diff) | |
diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary
Too large files may lead to failure to allocate memory. If it happens
here, it could impact quite a few commands that involve
diff. Moreover, too large files are inefficient to compare anyway (and
most likely non-text), so mark them binary and skip looking at their
content.
Noticed-by: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c55c22ab7b..3b5b24aeb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ core.bigFileThreshold:: Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without attempting delta compression. Storing large files without delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the - slight expense of increased disk usage. + slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files + larger than this size are always treated as binary. + Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable for most projects as source code and other text files can still |