From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:03:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-import: count --max-pack-size in bytes
Message-ID: <20100204200306.GA11700@Knoppix>
In-Reply-To: <7v4olwbyvf.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:10:44AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Similar in spirit to 07cf0f2 (make --max-pack-size argument to 'git
> pack-object' count in bytes, 2010-02-03) which made the option by the same
> name to pack-objects, this counts the pack size limit in bytes.
> 
> In order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte
> scale an integer smaller than 8092 is interpreted in megabytes but the

Typo? Shouldn't it be 8192?

> user gets a warning.  Also a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an
> explosion of pack files.

-Ilari