On 10/8/2013 04:22, Don Hatch wrote:
Checking in a text file of size >= 256k
corrupts the rcs file, irretrievably losing most of the contents
It's documented in the rcs NEWS file:
- Env var RCS_MEM_LIMIT controls stdio threshold.
For speed, RCS uses memory-based routines for files up to
256 kilobytes, and stream-based (stdio) routines otherwise.
You can change this threshold value by setting the environment
variable ‘RCS_MEM_LIMIT’ to a non-negative integer, measured in
kilobytes. An empty ‘RCS_MEM_LIMIT’ value is silently ignored.
So, use the new environment variable, or build up your huge diffs a few
steps at a time, so as to avoid spamming this buffer.
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