From 6bf3b813486b4528feca39d599c256f662defc14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?= Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:08:05 +0700 Subject: diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 3 ++- Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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:: -- cgit v1.2.1