Scripts frequently need to find the root directory of a repository's
working tree. Currently, this requires using `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
or inferring it from other repository information.
Introduce `path.toplevel.absolute` and `path.toplevel.relative` keys
to `git repo info`. This allows scripts to retrieve the top-level
working tree path in a predictable, strictly formatted manner without
relying on `rev-parse`.
If requested in a bare repository where no working tree exists, the
command returns an empty string.
Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git -C <dir> checkout fi<TAB>' did not complete, which has been
corrected.
* jc/complete-checkout:
completion: 'git checkout' completes untracked paths as a last resort
completion: complete tracked paths for "git checkout"
completion: no-op refactoring of checkout completion
'git -C <dir> diff fi<TAB>' did not complete 'file', which has been
corrected.
* jc/complete-diff-tracked-paths:
completion: 'git diff' completes untracked paths as a last resort
completion: complete tracked paths for 'git diff'
completion: no-op refactoring of diff completion
The unused name parameter in 'struct chdir_notify_entry' has been
removed from chdir_notify_register(), chdir_notify_unregister(), and
related callback signatures across several subsystems, simplifying the
API now that trace output no longer uses it.
* ch/chdir-notify-drop-name:
chdir-notify.h: Removed unused param 'name'
The performance of adding numerous new packfiles has been improved
by introducing a fast path for known-new packfiles to skip an
unnecessary traversal in packfile_list_append(), avoiding a
quadratic complexity regression on load.
* js/packfile-fast-append:
packfile: fix perf regression with many packs
'git repack' has been taught '--drop-filtered' to delete local
promisor blobs exceeding a limit (currently 'blob:limit=') in partial
clones, reclaiming space. Guards prevent running during other
operations or if referenced by the index.
* ss/repack-drop-filtered:
builtin/repack: add guards for --drop-filtered
builtin/repack: actually drop filtered promisor blobs
builtin/repack: enumerate promisor blobs for --drop-filtered
repack-promisor: allow excluding objects from the rebuilt promisor pack
list-objects-filter: add list_objects_filter__filter_oidset()
builtin/repack: add --drop-filtered and --dry-run options
Various tests in 't7900-maintenance.sh' have been updated to use a
throwaway repository, and auto-detaching of maintenance tasks is now
disabled for these tests to fix flaky races with concurrent background
maintenance jobs.
* ps/t7900-deflake-maintenance:
t7900: fix flaky "maintenance.strategy" test
t7900: adapt some tests to use a throwaway repository
A client requesting the promisor-remote capability without a value
caused a null pointer dereference, which has been corrected by
rejecting a request without an argument.
* en/serve-promisor-remote-fix:
serve: reject valueless promisor-remote capability
The 'pack-objects' and delta-encoding code paths have been updated to
use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned long' for object sizes and offset
limits, avoiding potential truncation issues on 64-bit Windows.
* js/pack-objects-delta-size-t:
packfile: widen `unpack_object_header_buffer()` to `size_t`
git-zlib: widen `git_deflate_bound()` to `size_t`
t/helper/test-pack-deltas: widen `do_compress()`'s maxsize local to `size_t`
http-push: widen `start_put()`'s size local from `ssize_t` to `size_t`
diff: widen `deflate_it()`'s bound local from int to `size_t`
archive-zip: widen `zlib_deflate_raw()`'s maxsize local to `size_t`
packfile, git-zlib: widen `use_pack()` and zstream avail fields to `size_t`
delta: widen `create_delta()` and `diff_delta()` to `size_t`
pack-objects: widen `mem_usage` and `try_delta()`'s out-param to `size_t`
pack-objects: widen `free_unpacked()` return to `size_t`
pack-objects: widen delta-cache accounting to `size_t`
delta: widen `create_delta_index()` parameter to `size_t`
diff-delta: widen `struct delta_index`' size fields to `size_t`
The '--shallow-file' option of 'git' command requires a value, but the
code did not check the presence of a value and instead segfaulted
without one, which has been corrected.
* cc/git-shallow-file-wo-value:
git: avoid segfault on "git --shallow-file" without a value
The setting of a now-unused member '.pretty_given' in the sequencer
machinery has been removed.
* en/sequencer-lose-pretty-given:
sequencer: remove unnecessary variable setting
A handful of code paths have been corrected to check return values
from functions like curl_easy_duphandle(), deflateInit(), lseek(),
dup(), and strbuf_getline_lf(), resolving several Coverity warnings
about unchecked returns.
* js/coverity-unchecked-returns-fix:
bisect: handle dup() failure when redirecting stdout
bisect: check get_terms return at all call sites
bisect: check strbuf_getline_lf return when reading terms
transport-helper: warn when export-marks file cannot be finalized
transport-helper: check dup() return in get_exporter
compat/pread: check initial lseek for errors
last-modified: handle repo_parse_commit() failures
reftable tests: check reftable_table_init_ref_iterator() return
reftable/block: check deflateInit() return value
reftable: handle block-writer initialization errors
config: propagate launch_editor() failure in show_editor()
http: die on curl_easy_duphandle failure in get_active_slot
The merge-base computation has been optimized by stopping the walk
early when one side's exclusive commits in the queue are exhausted,
yielding significant speedups for queries with one-sided histories.
* kk/merge-base-exhaustion:
commit-reach: remove commit-date ordering fallback
commit-reach: move min_generation check into paint_queue_get()
commit-reach: terminate merge-base walk when one paint side is exhausted
commit-reach: introduce struct paint_state with per-side counters
t6600: add clock-skew topologies and step counts for edge cases
commit-reach: add trace2 instrumentation to paint_down_to_common()
t6099: add side-exhaustion regression test
t6600: add test cases for side-exhaustion edge cases
test-lib-functions: improve diagnostic output for trace2 data assertions
Documentation/technical: add paint-down-to-common doc
The sequencer has been updated to release the object database before
spawning 'git commit'. This prevents open file handles from
blocking auto-maintenance tasks, such as repacking, on systems like
Windows where open files cannot be easily unlinked.
* js/sequencer-release-odb-before-commit:
sequencer: release the ODB before spawning git commit
The error message given by 'git send-email' when a message file is
missing a 'Subject:' header has been clarified, and the error string
is now terminated with a newline so that Perl avoids appending its
internal source location data.
* hn/send-email-missing-subject-error:
send-email: clarify missing subject error
The 'struct odb_read_stream' and 'struct odb_write_stream'
structures have been consolidated into a single unified 'struct
odb_stream' structure, simplifying object database streaming APIs
and enabling streaming of arbitrary object types.
* ps/odb-streams:
odb/streaming: unify function names to create new streams
odb/streaming: rename `struct input_zstream_data`
odb/streaming: rename `struct read_object_fd_data`
odb/streaming: consolidate read and write streams
odb/streaming: rename `struct odb_read_stream`
odb/streaming: support streaming arbitrary object types
odb/streaming: drop `is_finished` field
odb/streaming: track write stream size in the structure
The usage string of 'git fast-import' has been updated to use the
parse_options() API for displaying help, and its SYNOPSIS in the
documentation has been standardized to match.
* cc/fast-import-usage:
fast-import: remove useless from_stream argument
fast-import: use parse_options() for command line options
fast-import: use callbacks to parse some options
fast-import: use struct option for usage string
fast-import: move command state globals into 'struct fast_import_state'
fast-import: introduce 'struct fast_import_state'
fast-import: factor out option_*() functions
fast-import: use int for some bool flags
fast-import: localize 'i' into the 'for' loops using it
api-parse-options.adoc: document hidden and OPT_*_F option macros
api-parse-options.adoc: document per-option flags
parse-options: introduce OPT_HIDDEN_GROUP
The 'remote-object-info' command for 'git cat-file --batch-command'
has been extended to support the '%(objecttype)' placeholder.
* ps/cat-file-remote-object-info-type:
cat-file: unify default format
serve: advertise type capability
fetch-object-info: parse type from server response
protocol-caps: add type support to object-info
transport: drop remote object-info fields from transport struct
fetch-object-info: die() on the remaining error path
fetch-object-info: use dedicated struct for the results
fetch-object-info: pass arguments directly instead of a struct
fetch-object-info: detect malformed server responses
t5701: use test_file_size() to get the size of a file
Documentation for 'git interpret-trailers' has been updated to explain
the format of trailer keys (alphanumeric characters and hyphens),
replace outdated terminology, define key terms upfront, and document
how comment lines in the input are treated.
* kh/doc-trailers:
doc: interpret-trailers: document comment line treatment
doc: interpret-trailers: rewrite new-trailers paragraphs
doc: interpret-trailers: commit to “trailer block” term
doc: interpret-trailers: join new-trailers again
doc: interpret-trailers: add key format example
doc: interpret-trailers: explain key format
doc: interpret-trailers: explain the format after the intro
doc: interpret-trailers: not just for commit messages
doc: interpret-trailers: use “metadata” in Name as well
doc: interpret-trailers: replace “lines” with “metadata”
doc: interpret-trailers: stop fixating on RFC 822
The creation of the on-disk data structures for the object database
has been made pluggable, allowing future backends to customize their
setup. As part of this, the initialization of the object database
has been deferred, and the loading of the loose-object map has been
detangled from repository initialization.
* ps/odb-make-creation-pluggable:
odb: make creation of on-disk structures pluggable
odb/source: introduce function to map source type to name
setup: defer object database creation
setup: handle ODB-related environment variables in `odb_new()`
setup: detangle loading of loose object maps
loose: load loose object map for the correct source
The 'git branch' command has been taught the '--delete-merged' option
to remove local branches that are already merged into their tracked
remote-tracking branches.
* hn/branch-delete-merged:
branch: add --dry-run for --delete-merged
branch: add branch.<name>.deleteMerged opt-out
branch: add --delete-merged <pattern>
branch: prepare delete_branches for a bulk caller
branch: let delete_branches skip unmerged branches on bulk refusal
branch: convert delete_branches() to a flags argument
branch: add --forked filter for --list mode
The 'git bisect' command has been taught a
'--reset-when-found[=<where>]' option that tells the command to
automatically run 'git bisect reset' to jump back to the original
state or to the found culprit.
* hn/bisect-reset-when-found:
bisect: add --reset-when-found to leave when done
bisect: let bisect_reset() optionally check out quietly
A compatibility wrapper for writev(3p) has been reintroduced,
including fixes for CMake build and 'MAX_IO_SIZE' limits on NonStop.
Calls to write(3p) in send_sideband() and cat_blob() have been
refactored to use writev(3p) wrappers to reduce syscall overhead.
* ps/writev:
fast-import: use writev(3p) to send cat-blob responses
sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines
wrapper: properly handle MAX_IO_SIZE in writev(3p)
wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers
compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper
The known limitations of the ref format migration in 'git refs' have
been moved to be displayed as a warning admonition directly under the
description of the 'migrate' subcommand, improving visibility. A
reference to 'git-maintenance' has also been corrected to use the
'linkgit' macro.
* kh/doc-refs-migrate-limitations:
doc: refs: linkgit to git-maintenance(1)
doc: refs: put ref migration warning under the command
'git add' has been taught a new '--resolved' option to stage
conflict-resolved paths, while leaving unrelated local changes
unstaged. It scans the unmerged paths for leftover conflict
markers and aborts if any are found.
* jc/add-resolved:
add: introduce '--resolved' option
read-cache: add remove_file_from_index_with_flags()
merge-ll: consolidate conflict marker scanning logic
read-cache: reindent
The 'ssh-agent' tests in 't7528' have been fixed to work when the
user's login shell is csh-like, by explicitly passing '-s' to
'ssh-agent' to force Bourne shell syntax.
* kl/t7528-ssh-agent-for-csh-users:
t7528: fix failure under csh
Concurrent downloads of packfiles via packfile URIs and dumb HTTP are
safer by avoiding concurrent appends to the staging file. Opening in
read-write mode with separate file offsets prevents corruption and
preserves resumability. 'fetch-pack' now tolerates pre-existing
'.keep' files.
* tn/packfile-uri-concurrency:
fetch-pack: accept "pack" output for packfile URIs
http: permit unlinking partial packs on Windows
http: avoid concurrent appends to partial packs
http: accept HTTP 416 for complete partial packs
http: avoid closing index-pack input twice
http-fetch: correct --index-pack-arg documentation
The 'TRACE2_ANCESTRY' prerequisite in the 't0213' test script has been
refined to avoid failures under user-mode emulation by verifying that
the ancestry collector reports the expected process names rather than
the emulator binary name.
* jm/t0213-skip-emulated-ancestry-tests:
t0213: skip ancestry tests under user-mode emulation
The `name` parameter in `chdir_notify_entry` was only ever used by
chdir_notify_reparent() to produce trace output. That function was
removed in 5bf546755c (chdir-notify: drop unused
`chdir_notify_reparent()`, 2026-06-25), which left `name` with no
remaining consumers.
Prior to that removal, most callers had already stopped passing a
meaningful name, switching to NULL in 1f43ff2c7e (refs: unregister
reference stores from "chdir_notify", 2026-06-25) and 0de2467e6c
(odb/source-packed: start converting to a proper `struct odb_source`,
2026-06-17).
Since no caller has populated `name` with real data for some time,
and its last consumer is gone, drop it from chdir_notify_register(),
chdir_notify_unregister(), and the callback signature to simplify
the API.
Signed-off-by: Colin Hinton <colinlewishinton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the article "an" before "incremental updates".
Signed-off-by: Swapnil Saste | INDIA <theswapnilsaste@gmail.Com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 6623a528e0 (doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy
limits, 2021-07-15), the wording around rename limit options and config
variables were updated to point out that only the quadratic portion of
rename detection (or "exhaustive portion of rename/copy detection" as
used in that commit) was limited by these options, because exact rename
detection and basename-guided rename detection (which both run in time
linear in the number of files) still run before this limit is checked.
However, the short help message wasn't updated at the time; update it
too.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--drop-filtered removes local promisor blobs. That is only safe when the
repository is not mid-operation and when the blobs are not actively in
use, so add two guards, both skipped for bare repositories which have
neither a worktree nor an index.
First, refuse to run while a merge, rebase, am, cherry-pick, revert, or
bisect is in progress. During these operations the working tree and
index are in an intermediate state, and rewriting packs and deleting
objects underneath a half-finished operation is unsafe.
Second, refuse to drop a blob that the current index references. Such a
blob is needed by the working tree, so dropping it would only cause the
next command that touches the worktree to lazy-fetch it straight back,
reclaiming nothing. The offending path is reported so the user can see
why the drop was refused.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make --drop-filtered remove the enumerated promisor blobs instead of
only listing them.
The drop set is computed before repack_promisor_objects() runs, and on
a real run it is passed in so the rebuilt promisor pack omits those
blobs. --drop-filtered implies -d so the old promisor packs, which
still contain the dropped blobs, are removed. Without this the blobs
would survive in the redundant packs. The existing repack machinery
performs the write-before-delete and fsync, so the drop is crash-safe.
The dropped blobs become absent locally but remain recoverable from the
promisor remote, so a later access lazy-fetches them back
transparently. --dry-run keeps its previous behavior, i.e. it lists the
candidates and changes nothing.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add enumeration logic for --drop-filtered. In --dry-run mode, print
the OIDs of locally-held promisor blobs that exceed the filter
threshold, as candidates for removal.
Reading from write_filtered_pack() cannot work for partial clones.
git repack routes promisor objects through a separate path:
repack_promisor_objects() repacks them first, and the main
pack-objects run uses --exclude-promisor-objects. By the time
write_filtered_pack() runs, the promisor blobs are already consumed by
the main pack. The filtered pack is always empty on a partial clone.
Instead, walk promisor objects directly via odb_for_each_object() with
ODB_FOR_EACH_OBJECT_PROMISOR_ONLY, collecting all promisor blobs into
an oidset. The blobs exceeding the filter threshold are then selected
using list_objects_filter__filter_oidset().
Every object enumerated this way is a promisor object, so it is
recoverable from the promisor remote in the same sense as the rest of a
partial clone, as long as the remote still has it. This holds without a
separate is_promisor_object() check. A future implementation can verify
availability against the remote directly once a client-side
remote-object-info query exists.
OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT is passed to every object info query so
enumeration never triggers a lazy fetch.
The enumeration collects candidates into a caller-provided oidset and
--dry-run prints them. Actually removing the objects, together with the
required promisor-remote verification, is written in a later commit.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a to_drop oidset parameter to repack_promisor_objects(). When it is
non-NULL, write_oid() omits those objects from the rebuilt promisor
pack. This is the mechanism --drop-filtered will use to remove promisor
blobs, i.e. rebuild the promisor pack without them.
All existing callers pass NULL, so behavior is unchanged.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing filter entry point, list_objects_filter__filter_object(),
is built around the object-walk path: it expects traversal context and
provisional omit sets, and is meant to be called as objects are
visited during a walk. A caller that already has a set of OIDs in hand
and only wants to know which ones a filter would select has no usable
entry point into the filter API.
--drop-filtered is exactly such a caller: it collects promisor blobs
into an oidset and needs to know which of them exceed the filter
threshold, without performing an object walk.
Add a helper, list_objects_filter__filter_oidset(), that takes a set
of OIDs and populates an "omitted" set with those that would be
filtered out by the given filter options. Only blob:limit=N filters
are supported for now.
This helper does not actually reuse the existing filter machinery.
It reimplements the blob:limit size check directly. That machinery
is tied to the object-walk path and cannot easily be driven
from a plain oidset. A NEEDSWORK comment marks this so the helper can
later be refactored to reuse the real filter logic instead of
duplicating it.
OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT is passed when reading object info so
the helper never triggers a lazy fetch.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add two new command-line options to 'git-repack':
--drop-filtered: intended to eventually delete objects that match
the filter specification. Requires --filter and -a,
and is incompatible with --filter-to.
--dry-run: show which objects would be dropped without making any
changes. Only meaningful with --drop-filtered.
Keep --dry-run as a separate option rather than folding it into
--drop-filtered (e.g. --drop-filtered=dry-run), to stay consistent with
the --dry-run option other Git commands already provide and to leave
room for it to describe other repack behavior later. A
--drop-filtered=<mode> form can still be added later if more
drop-specific modes are needed.
--drop-filtered also requires a promisor remote to be configured, since
dropping objects without a remote to fetch them back from would be
permanent data loss.
--drop-filtered is incompatible with bitmap writing: filtering breaks
the "all objects in one pack" closure that bitmaps require. Detect an
explicit -b/--write-bitmap-index on the command line with a dedicated
option callback that sets a "write_bitmaps_given" flag, so it can be
distinguished from a repack.writeBitmaps configuration value even when
config already enables bitmaps. An explicit -b is reported as a conflict,
while a config-provided default is silently disabled for the duration
of the command.
These options currently only perform validation. The actual enumeration
and deletion will be added in follow-up commits.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Shrimali <r.siddharth.shrimali@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We taught 'git checkout' to first try to complete revisions (unless
'--' is present on the command line) and, failing that, to complete
tracked paths. If this yields nothing, it lets the Bash default,
which offers paths in $PWD, kick in.
Teach it to complete untracked paths before giving up and letting
the Bash default kick in. With this change,
$ git -C another-directory checkout un<TAB>
finds the 'untracked' file in another-directory and offers it as a
completion candidate.
Note that this is of somewhat dubious value, as an untracked path by
definition does not exist in the index, so checking it out from the
index would not work well. Even when used to check out the path
from a different branch, it is still of dubious value because it is
unlikely that a path tracked in another branch is lying untracked in
the working tree, as switching from a branch with the path to a
branch without it will normally remove the file in the working tree.
A better behavior probably is to detect the tree-ish argument on
the command line and offer paths with the given prefix as candidates,
but there is no __git_complete_from_tree() helper readily usable,
so mark this as #leftoverbits to wait for another day.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When completing arguments for "git checkout", _git_checkout()
delegates to __git_complete_refs(), which only completes revision
references. This is good, as mixing revisions and paths in a single
list from which the user can choose is confusing. However, if no
reference matches, or if "--" is given, _git_checkout() leaves
COMPREPLY empty. Bash then falls back to the default filename
completion in $PWD.
This fails when "git -C <path>" is used, as $PWD is not the target
repository.
Update _git_checkout() to use __git_complete_index_file() when "--"
is present, or when revision reference completion yields no matching
candidates, so that tracked paths are offered as candidates.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git checkout' completion function punts very early when it sees
'--' on the command line, as it indicates that options or revisions
can no longer appear. By returning early, it allows the default
Bash action (which completes files in '$PWD') to kick in.
In preparation for changing what happens in the next step when
option or revision completion yields no matching candidates, or when
'--' is present, reorganize the control flow to avoid this early
return, and add explicit returns to the option completion branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 589127caa7 (packfile: move list of packs into the packfile
store, 2025-10-30), there is a performance regression when many
packfiles need to be loaded: `packfile_store_add_pack()` now calls
`packfile_list_remove_internal()` to detect whether the packfile was
_already_ in the list, and if so, move it to the end of the list. This
function linearly scans the existing list before every insertion. Newly
loading N packs therefore has complexity O(N²).
In one reported use case (https://github.com/microsoft/git/issues/970),
N equals 37,815 and caused a slow-down of a simple `git rev-parse
--short HEAD` (which is regularly executed as part of `GIT_PS1`) from
0.4s to 4.5s.
Let's fix this by establishing a fast path for known-new packfiles.
The keen reader will note that there is currently only a single,
"known-new" caller of the `packfile_list_append()` function, and wonder
why not simply remove this check whether the packfile already exists in
the list? Originally, when above-mentioned commit introduced that logic,
there was a second caller in `prepare_midx()`, which would have required
that check, but that caller was removed in 6aff1f25a0 (packfile:
always add packfiles to MRU when adding a pack, 2025-10-30). Still, the
function is declared in a header file, and to avoid any problems with
in-flight or downstream callers, it is safer to extend the signature to
be explicit whether or not to skip that check.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As part of the ongoing effort to replace `unsigned long` data types with
`size_t` wherever appropriate (mainly to fix all those problems on
Windows with objects larger than 4GB), let's also adjust the return type
and the type of the `len` parameter of this function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
K Jayatheerth