On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Thomas Braun
<thomas.br...@virtuell-zuhause.de> wrote:
>> @@ -2721,6 +2721,11 @@ int diff_populate_filespec(struct diff_filespec *s,
>> unsigned int flags)
>> }
>> if (size_only)
>> return 0;
>> + if ((flags & DIFF_POPULATE_IS_BINARY) &&
>> + s->size > big_file_threshold && s->is_binary == -1) {
>> + s->is_binary = 1;
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>
> Why do you check for s->is_binary == -1 here? I think it does not matter
> what s_is_binary says here.
If some .gitattributes to mark one file not-binary, we should respect
that, I think. Same for below too.
> I would also add a note to the documentation e. g:
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index 9f467d3..7a2f27d 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 allways 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
Thanks. Will do. Sorry a little busy these days and could not reply earlier.
--
Duy
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