"The diff for this file is too large to render" - Can the limit be increased?

Balázs Szakmáry

When trying to display the diff of a (long) file in a commit, I get "The diff for this file is too large to render." instead of the diff.

- What is the upper limit of the file size that Stash is still willing to display?

- Is there a way to increase this limit?

Michael Heemskerk

Balasz,

Stash applies two limits to diff rendering to limit memory usage:

# Maximum length for any line returned from a given file when viewing source. This value truncates long lines. There is no mechanism for retrieving the truncated part short of downloading the entire file.

page.max.source.length=5000

# Maximum number of segment lines (of any type, total) which may be returned for a single diff. Unlike other page limits, this is a hard limit; subsequent pages cannot be requested when a diff exceeds this size.

page.max.diff.lines=10000

Both settings can be overridden in STASH_HOME/stash-config.properties. You'll need to restart Stash to pick up the updated configuration.

Cheers,

Michael