Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-config and large integers

> On 08/21/2013 12:39 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> > I was playing with a hook for file size limits that wanted to store the
> > limit in git-config. It turns out we don't do a very good job of big
> > integers:
> > 
> >   $ git config foo.size 2g
> >   $ git config --int foo.size
> >   -2147483648
> > 
> > Oops. After this series, we properly notice the error:
> > 
> >   $ git config --int foo.size
> >   fatal: bad config value for 'foo.size' in .git/config
> > 
> > and even better, provide a way to access large values:
> > 
> >   $ git config --ulong foo.size
> >   2147483648
> > 
> 
> int, ulong...
> How large will those be, I'd guess they are machine dependent?
> So int being 32 bits as usual, but not on all machines.
> (Those, which don't have 32 bits, are maybe not relevant anyways?)