Re: [PATCH 2/6] commit: add generation number to struct commmit

> >> Is there any reason to believe this would be too small of a value in the
> >> future?  Or is a 32 bit unsigned good enough?
> > 
> > The linux kernel took ~10 years to produce 500k commits. Even assuming
> > those were all linear (and they're not), that gives us ~80,000 years of
> > leeway. So even if the pace of development speeds up or we have a
> > quicker project, it still seems we have a pretty reasonable safety
> > margin.
> 
> I didn't read the patches closely, but isn't it ~20,000 years?
> 
> Given that '#define GENERATION_NUMBER_MAX 0x3FFFFFFF', that is. ;-)