Bug#836784: diffoscope: Several "Too much input for diff" on debian packages from unstable/amd64

[Ximin Luo]

Holger Levsen:
> Hi Ximin,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:32:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Hi Emanuel, try setting the --max-diff-input-lines flag to a higher value. In the next version we'll let "0" mean "unlimited" as well as having a --no-max value to disable all such limits.
> 
> Emmanuel is experiencing this with jenkins.debian.net, so *we* need to set
> --max-diff-input-lines to some higher value. Which value would you
> suggest, the machine has lots of RAM… ;-) (58G)
> 

My bad, sorry for not reading properly. In my better-lazy-loading branch I have 

+        self._max_diff_input_lines = 2 ** 20 # GNU diff cannot process arbitrary large files :(

and I haven't run into any problems testing with this myself. I even managed to do gcc-6 fine.

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