* This also bypasses the usual "convert-to-git" dance, and that is on
* purpose. We could write a streaming version of the converting
* functions and insert that before feeding the data to fast-import
- * (or equivalent in-core API described above), but the primary
- * motivation for trying to stream from the working tree file and to
- * avoid mmaping it in core is to deal with large binary blobs, and
- * by definition they do _not_ want to get any conversion.
+ * (or equivalent in-core API described above). However, that is
+ * somewhat complicated, as we do not know the size of the filter
+ * result, which we need to know beforehand when writing a git object.
+ * Since the primary motivation for trying to stream from the working
+ * tree file and to avoid mmaping it in core is to deal with large
+ * binary blobs, they generally do not want to get any conversion, and
+ * callers should avoid this code path when filters are requested.
*/
static int index_stream(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, size_t size,
enum object_type type, const char *path,
if (!S_ISREG(st->st_mode))
ret = index_pipe(sha1, fd, type, path, flags);
- else if (size <= big_file_threshold || type != OBJ_BLOB)
+ else if (size <= big_file_threshold || type != OBJ_BLOB ||
+ (path && would_convert_to_git(path, NULL, 0, 0)))
ret = index_core(sha1, fd, size, type, path, flags);
else
ret = index_stream(sha1, fd, size, type, path, flags);