diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 944d2c3af5140fdbf739f820610a36b7729d0518..37e2d9e1861295361d08b3f2cc0f3dcc584acdc9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ all::
 # Define PPC_SHA1 environment variable when running make to make use of
 # a bundled SHA1 routine optimized for PowerPC.
 #
+# Define SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE to limit the amount of data that will be hashed
+# in one call to the platform's SHA1_Update(). e.g. APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO
+# wants 'SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE=1024L*1024L*1024L' defined.
+#
 # Define NEEDS_CRYPTO_WITH_SSL if you need -lcrypto when using -lssl (Darwin).
 #
 # Define NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO if you need -lssl when using -lcrypto (Darwin).
@@ -1340,6 +1344,11 @@ ifdef NO_POSIX_GOODIES
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_POSIX_GOODIES
 endif
 
+ifdef APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO
+	# Apple CommonCrypto requires chunking
+	SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 1024L*1024L*1024L
+endif
+
 ifdef BLK_SHA1
 	SHA1_HEADER = "block-sha1/sha1.h"
 	LIB_OBJS += block-sha1/sha1.o
@@ -1358,6 +1367,10 @@ endif
 endif
 endif
 
+ifdef SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
+	LIB_OBJS += compat/sha1-chunked.o
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DSHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE="$(SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE)"
+endif
 ifdef NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
 	export NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
 endif
diff --git a/block-sha1/sha1.h b/block-sha1/sha1.h
index b864df623e3b89ad678a888dce4b0d4c997f1ac3..4df67477526a2891f7dcdac71ea7bffa75120a67 100644
--- a/block-sha1/sha1.h
+++ b/block-sha1/sha1.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ void blk_SHA1_Init(blk_SHA_CTX *ctx);
 void blk_SHA1_Update(blk_SHA_CTX *ctx, const void *dataIn, unsigned long len);
 void blk_SHA1_Final(unsigned char hashout[20], blk_SHA_CTX *ctx);
 
-#define git_SHA_CTX	blk_SHA_CTX
-#define git_SHA1_Init	blk_SHA1_Init
-#define git_SHA1_Update	blk_SHA1_Update
-#define git_SHA1_Final	blk_SHA1_Final
+#define platform_SHA_CTX	blk_SHA_CTX
+#define platform_SHA1_Init	blk_SHA1_Init
+#define platform_SHA1_Update	blk_SHA1_Update
+#define platform_SHA1_Final	blk_SHA1_Final
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 649faa77e370ee9d8bf9b604fe211911002384ff..6f53962bf25b350fe9118328fb6bfa34d1aa3810 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -11,11 +11,29 @@
 #include "string-list.h"
 
 #include SHA1_HEADER
-#ifndef git_SHA_CTX
-#define git_SHA_CTX	SHA_CTX
-#define git_SHA1_Init	SHA1_Init
-#define git_SHA1_Update	SHA1_Update
-#define git_SHA1_Final	SHA1_Final
+#ifndef platform_SHA_CTX
+/*
+ * platform's underlying implementation of SHA-1; could be OpenSSL,
+ * blk_SHA, Apple CommonCrypto, etc...  Note that including
+ * SHA1_HEADER may have already defined platform_SHA_CTX for our
+ * own implementations like block-sha1 and ppc-sha1, so we list
+ * the default for OpenSSL compatible SHA-1 implementations here.
+ */
+#define platform_SHA_CTX	SHA_CTX
+#define platform_SHA1_Init	SHA1_Init
+#define platform_SHA1_Update	SHA1_Update
+#define platform_SHA1_Final    	SHA1_Final
+#endif
+
+#define git_SHA_CTX		platform_SHA_CTX
+#define git_SHA1_Init		platform_SHA1_Init
+#define git_SHA1_Update		platform_SHA1_Update
+#define git_SHA1_Final		platform_SHA1_Final
+
+#ifdef SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
+#include "compat/sha1-chunked.h"
+#undef git_SHA1_Update
+#define git_SHA1_Update		git_SHA1_Update_Chunked
 #endif
 
 #include <zlib.h>
diff --git a/compat/apple-common-crypto.h b/compat/apple-common-crypto.h
index c8b9b0e1a6ce63d16aec142611d03fbe24784b43..d3fb2641813404a95709d2b219b9ab1fa1434296 100644
--- a/compat/apple-common-crypto.h
+++ b/compat/apple-common-crypto.h
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 #undef TYPE_BOOL
 #endif
 
+#ifndef SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
+#error Using Apple Common Crypto library requires setting SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
+#endif
+
 #ifdef APPLE_LION_OR_NEWER
 #define git_CC_error_check(pattern, err) \
 	do { \
diff --git a/compat/sha1-chunked.c b/compat/sha1-chunked.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6adfcfd54051617fd4cbdd0e5d8a904c2a839152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/sha1-chunked.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#include "cache.h"
+
+int git_SHA1_Update_Chunked(platform_SHA_CTX *c, const void *data, size_t len)
+{
+	size_t nr;
+	size_t total = 0;
+	const char *cdata = (const char*)data;
+
+	while (len) {
+		nr = len;
+		if (nr > SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE)
+			nr = SHA1_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE;
+		platform_SHA1_Update(c, cdata, nr);
+		total += nr;
+		cdata += nr;
+		len -= nr;
+	}
+	return total;
+}
diff --git a/compat/sha1-chunked.h b/compat/sha1-chunked.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b2df28eec4548ce3fca62f3b90fb1df0216ff04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/sha1-chunked.h
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+int git_SHA1_Update_Chunked(platform_SHA_CTX *c, const void *data, size_t len);
diff --git a/ppc/sha1.h b/ppc/sha1.h
index c405f734c2050e2e4ad3469d087368a29a98d27e..9b24b3261592d856b9f4a5eeebdcd589e645c020 100644
--- a/ppc/sha1.h
+++ b/ppc/sha1.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int ppc_SHA1_Init(ppc_SHA_CTX *c);
 int ppc_SHA1_Update(ppc_SHA_CTX *c, const void *p, unsigned long n);
 int ppc_SHA1_Final(unsigned char *hash, ppc_SHA_CTX *c);
 
-#define git_SHA_CTX	ppc_SHA_CTX
-#define git_SHA1_Init	ppc_SHA1_Init
-#define git_SHA1_Update	ppc_SHA1_Update
-#define git_SHA1_Final	ppc_SHA1_Final
+#define platform_SHA_CTX	ppc_SHA_CTX
+#define platform_SHA1_Init	ppc_SHA1_Init
+#define platform_SHA1_Update	ppc_SHA1_Update
+#define platform_SHA1_Final	ppc_SHA1_Final