[issue546] File size limit?

[Peter Weseloh]

New submission from Peter Weseloh <Peter.Weseloh at googlemail.com>:

When I try to add/commit a 2G file I get the following

> % hg add 2G.zero
> % hg commit -m "2G.zero"
** unknown exception encountered, details follow
** report bug details to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts
** or mercurial at selenic.com
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 0.9.3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/bin/hg", line 12, in ?
    commands.run()
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/commands.py",
line 3000, in run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/commands.py",
line 3223, in dispatch
    return d()
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/commands.py",
line 3182, in <lambda>
    d = lambda: func(u, repo, *args, **cmdoptions)
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/commands.py",
line 454, in commit
    force_editor=opts.get('force_editor'))
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/localrepo.py",
line 720, in commit
    new[f] = self.filecommit(f, m1, m2, linkrev, tr, changed)
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/localrepo.py",
line 602, in filecommit
    t = self.wread(fn)
  File
"/user/cat/dev_tools/4.0.2/x86_64.Linux/lib64/python/mercurial/localrepo.py",
line 491, in wread
    data = self.wopener(filename, 'r').read()
OverflowError: requested number of bytes is more than a Python string can hold

Is there a known file size limitation of mercurial or is it a problem of the
python version (2.3.4) I am using? OS is RHEL 4.4.

Background is that I want to add several large binary files to the repo.

Thanks,
Peter

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nosy: PeterW
priority: bug
status: unread
title: File size limit?

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