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docs(diff): name every cause of an unavailable file in the API

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brice · · 2026-10-20 08:27 UTC
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7070 A commit page reads the hunks of its first 300 files with the page; the other files are listed collapsed and load one at a time. A file that cannot be shown in the browser, over 8 MiB of text or over 50,000 changed lines when loaded alone, has no "load diff": the page links to its raw blob instead, and its lines take no comment.
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72-The API and `mr show --diff --json` keep their limits (300 files, 2,000 changed lines per file, 20,000 in total, 8 MiB). A file read without its hunks has `truncated` set and `omitted` giving the reason: `large`, `budget` (the earlier files used the limits) or `unavailable` (too large to read even alone).
72+The API and `mr show --diff --json` keep their limits (300 files, 2,000 changed lines per file, 20,000 in total, 8 MiB). A file read without its hunks has `truncated` set and `omitted` giving the reason: `large`, `budget` (the earlier files used the limits) or `unavailable` (over 8 MiB of text, or a line over 64 KiB, even alone). Files past the 300th are not listed and `diff_truncated` is set.
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7474 ## Notes
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70 A commit page reads the hunks of its first 300 files with the page; the other files are listed collapsed and load one at a time. A file that cannot be shown in the browser, over 8 MiB of text or over 50,000 changed lines when loaded alone, has no "load diff": the page links to its raw blob instead, and its lines take no comment.70 A commit page reads the hunks of its first 300 files with the page; the other files are listed collapsed and load one at a time. A file that cannot be shown in the browser, over 8 MiB of text or over 50,000 changed lines when loaded alone, has no "load diff": the page links to its raw blob instead, and its lines take no comment.
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72-The API and `mr show --diff --json` keep their limits (300 files, 2,000 changed lines per file, 20,000 in total, 8 MiB). A file read without its hunks has `truncated` set and `omitted` giving the reason: `large`, `budget` (the earlier files used the limits) or `unavailable` (too large to read even alone).72+The API and `mr show --diff --json` keep their limits (300 files, 2,000 changed lines per file, 20,000 in total, 8 MiB). A file read without its hunks has `truncated` set and `omitted` giving the reason: `large`, `budget` (the earlier files used the limits) or `unavailable` (over 8 MiB of text, or a line over 64 KiB, even alone). Files past the 300th are not listed and `diff_truncated` is set.
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