From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:41:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] usage: refactor die-recursion checks
Message-ID: <20130416014145.GC3262@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20130416004228.GA14995@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> I was also tempted to suggest just dropping the recursion check
> altogether. While it is neat to detect such things, it's a "should never
> happen" bug situation, and an infinite loop of printing out the same
> message is pretty easy to notice.

On servers it might be useful to avoid accidentally filling up logs
quickly.

IIUC the context is in the following two threads:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182982
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181421/focus=181443

Thanks,
Jonathan