Re: [PATCH] Split sample update hook into post-receive hook

From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Date: Mar 8, 2007, 09:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20070308124024.d20e29c9.vsu@altlinux.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20070308091313.GC30289@spearce.org>

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:13:13 -0500 Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> > But this is only true if you want to make it really nice.  I
> > personally feel that nobody would scream if pushing 1300 refs at
> > once (4K pages and MAX_ARG_PAGES at 32 would give 128K for
> > **argv and its strings, and one ref's worth of data is two
> > 40-digit hex plus refname, roughly 100-byte per ref) is not
> > supported and always failed.
>
> Agree completely.  I'm not too worried about it.  1300 ref push is
> just not going to really occur in practice; that is just insane.
> 30 refs, maybe.

It is not completely insane - e.g., the current klibc repository already contains 338 tags. Being unable to use "git push --tags" to an initially empty repository does not look good.

So could you please switch to passing refs through stdin while we still can do it without breaking public interfaces?