Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070905211838.GB3770@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6lcj2zi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 05, 2007 22:01:37 +0200:

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> +	/*
> +	 * Quickly check if a "gc" is needed, by estimating how
> +	 * many loose objects there are.  Because SHA-1 is evenly
> +	 * distributed, we can check only one and get a reasonable
> +	 * estimate.
> +	 */

:))

> +	if (sizeof(path) <= snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/17", objdir)) {
> +		warning("insanely long object directory %.*s", 50, objdir);

or a non-POSIX snprintf returning "negative value" (Microsoft)

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