[PATCH] Add support for git option: `pack.packSizeLimit`

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 15 Dec 2023 at 04:27am -08, Cathy J. Fitzpatrick wrote:

> The standard `git-config(1)` setting of `pack.packSizeLimit` is used to
> specify the maximum size of a pack file when repacking a repository.
> This setting is important when working with a remote git hosting
> provider that imposes a maximum file size on files stored on the remote
> server. For example, GitHub currently imposes a maximum size of 100 MiB
> per file stored on its servers.
>
> Until now, gpg-remote-gcrypt has ignored the `pack.packSizeLimit`
> setting when repacking the repository. This setting has been ignored
> because gpg-remote-gcrypt has supplied the `--stdout` flag to
> `gpg-repack(1)`, and that flag implicitly causes `gpg-repack(1)` to
> ignore the value of `pack.packSizeLimit`.
>
> This patch modifies gpg-remote-gcrypt so that it will respect the value
> of `pack.packSizeLimit`. This is achieved by modifying the invocation of
> `gpg-repack(1)` so that the `--stdout` argument is not supplied.
> Instead, the pack files are written to the same temporary directory that
> gpg-remote-gcrypt already uses for other purposes.

Thanks.  I'd like to apply this.

Could you give me some idea of the testing that you've done?

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Sean Whitton