From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:43:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] receive-pack: allow a maximum input size to be specified
Message-ID: <20160818214331.ie7idv2m3ljgjzyg@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpop56czc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:25:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> > index 0bcb679..f5b6061 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> > @@ -2517,6 +2517,11 @@ receive.unpackLimit::
> >  	especially on slow filesystems.  If not set, the value of
> >  	`transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
> >  
> > +receive.maxsize::
> 
> Shouldn't this be maxInputSize, not just maxSize?  You are limiting
> the size of the input, not the size of the resulting pack, right?

Yeah, that is probably a better name. I don't recall why I picked
maxSize long ago.

> [...]

I agree, too, with all of the other comments you made.

-Peff