Re: [Monotone-devel] Newbie Question 6

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:15:33PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> 6) I understand that the maximum size of a file that can be committed is 
> currently 16mb.  a) Can that figure be increased b) Does Monotone perform 
> any compression on that file as it is committing it.

Graydon had some crazy plan a while ago for how to make that size
arbitrarily large, but nothing's come of it yet and I don't know if he
still thinks it would work.

Monotone gzip's the data stored in the repository; it's actually
base64(gzip(data)) that can't be over 16mb.

-- Nathaniel

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