On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Duy Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 12:38:22AM +0200, Christoph Michelbach wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when run on a 32 bit system (Linux system, don't know about other >> systems), >> >> mkdir test && cd test && git init && touch someFile && git add someFile >> && git commit -m "Initial commit." && dd if=/dev/urandom >> of=bigBinaryFile bs=1MB count=4294 && git add bigBinaryFile && git >> commit -m "Introduced big biary file." >> >> reliably produces this error message: "error: bad packed object CRC >> for" > > > I tried with a 32-bit git build on 64-bit system and did not see this > message. Maybe it's because the 64-bit system. Just too lazy to bring > up a 32-bit VM to process 4GB of data. > > But I did look around a bit, and the problem is probably number > truncation. Could you try this patch?
Just FYI. There may be more truncation problems on 32-bit systems. "clang -Wshorten-64-to-32" reports a couple of spots that could be real problems (pack-objects, index-pack...) for handling 4+ GB files on these systems. Still working on it... -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
