Re: [git-users] Re: GIT failed to checkout the linux kernel on a 6 GB system

2022-03-02 Thread skybuck2000
Hi, My latest hypothesis what might have happened during that normal git checkout on linux kernel is that there was some kind of memory fragmentation and windows could not return enough memory. Test programs could be written to test this hypothesis but I have no time for this. Bye, Skybuck.

[git-users] Is it possible to apply git versioning/diffing algorithm to multiple files which are the same file ?

2022-03-02 Thread skybuck2000
So suppose I have a repo which is like this: version1.txt version2.txt version3.txt All three files are actually the same file. Is it possible to tell git that version3.txt was based on version2.txt and version2.txt was based on version1.txt and that it should apply it's difference engine onto