Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Support hashing objects larger than 4GB on Windows

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:15:06 +0000

Philip Oakley has contributed these patches ~4.5 years ago, and they have
been carried in Git for Windows ever since.

Now that there are already other patch series flying around that try to
address various aspects about >4GB objects (which aren't handled well by Git
until it stops forcing unsigned long to do size_t's job), it seems a good
time to upstream these patches, too, at long last.

Philip Oakley (6):
  hash-object: demonstrate a >4GB/LLP64 problem
  object-file.c: use size_t for header lengths
  hash algorithms: use size_t for section lengths
  hash-object --stdin: verify that it works with >4GB/LLP64
  hash-object: add another >4GB/LLP64 test case
  hash-object: add a >4GB/LLP64 test case using filtered input

 object-file.c          | 18 +++++++++---------
 object-file.h          |  4 ++--
 sha1dc_git.c           |  3 +--
 sha1dc_git.h           |  2 +-
 t/t1007-hash-object.sh | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

base-commit: 9ac3f193c05c2237e2b14ebaa1149e9fc8a1abe0
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2138%2Fdscho%2FPhilipOakley%2Fhashliteral_t-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2138/dscho/PhilipOakley/hashliteral_t-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2138
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