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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-09-11 10:33:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-09-11 10:33:33 -0700 |
| commit | bedd3b4b7b25df0b994abf444ee2136995dfeffa (patch) | |
| tree | 1f5866f73cce9cf92d602f8d61fb6a52d1c3d3c9 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'nd/fetch-pass-quiet-to-gc-child-process' (diff) | |
| parent | diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects (diff) | |
| download | tgif-bedd3b4b7b25df0b994abf444ee2136995dfeffa.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'nd/large-blobs'
Teach a few codepaths to punt (instead of dying) when large blobs
that would not fit in core are involved in the operation.
* nd/large-blobs:
diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects
diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary
diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespec
sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entry
wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 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 diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 643c1ba929..9b45bda748 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ Unspecified:: A path to which the `diff` attribute is unspecified first gets its contents inspected, and if it looks like - text, it is treated as text. Otherwise it would - generate `Binary files differ`. + text and is smaller than core.bigFileThreshold, it is treated + as text. Otherwise it would generate `Binary files differ`. String:: |