On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > I assume you're compiling git as 32-bit executables on your G5. I > > don't see any reason why the git binaries would need to be 64-bit. > > > > Well, git seems to assume it can mmap() the entirety of any file under its > control, so a 64-bit git could handle larger files. But beware that the delta code would break since it currently won't cope with any file offset larger than 32 bits. I reserved the zero byte to prefix any extended encoding but felt it wasn't really needed yet and I just didn't bother coding it. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 16 06:58:13 2005
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