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Re: CVS update: MODIFIED: libsvn_fs ...

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2001-05-10 18:04:15 CEST

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > What we need to do is create svn_fs_filesize_t. Ideally, it would be the
> > same as apr_off_t.
>...
> This would mean changes in a lot of code, not just in strings-table.c.
> It might be worth it later, but I think we should put it off for now;
> no one actually has a 5-gig file they want to check in yet, nor will
> they until Subversion is known to work on smaller files. :-)
>
> The principle of avoiding arbitrary limits is great, but not
> all-powerful. The benefit/cost ratio for this change isn't very high
> (yet), imho.

For me, I see this is an important piece. Do you have a problem with the
concept, in general? IOW, any issue if I spend my own time massaging
svn_fs_filesize_t into the code?

(and just use svn_fs_filesize_t == apr_size_t for now)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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