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Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2008, 07:30 UTC
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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
> So how many parents can a commit have, exactly? Is there a hard limit
> somewhere, or just a point beyond which some git tools will start
> behaving strangely?
There is no hard limit at the data structure level.

git-commit-tree has a hard limit of accepting 16 parents. git-blame has the same 16-parent limit while following the history (but the one in 'next' has lifted the latter limitation).

But that is purely academic. Anybody who does an octopus with more than 8 legs should get his head examined ;-).

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  2. Mike HommeyJun 16, 2008
  3. Pierre HabouzitJun 16, 2008
  4. Pierre HabouzitJun 16, 2008
  5. Sverre RabbelierJun 16, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmJun 17, 2008
  7. David KastrupJun 16, 2008
  8. Theodore TsoJun 16, 2008
  9. David KastrupJun 16, 2008
  10. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  12. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  15. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  17. 1/5 rerere: rerere_created_at() and has_resolution() abstractionJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  18. 2/5 git-rerere: detect unparsable conflictsJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  19. 3/5 rerere: remove dubious "tail_optimization"Junio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  20. 4/5 t4200: fix rerere testJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  21. 5/5 rerere.autoupdateJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  22. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  23. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  24. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  25. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  26. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  27. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2008
  28. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  29. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  30. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2008
  32. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  33. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  34. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  35. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  36. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  37. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  38. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  39. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  40. Peter ZijlstraJun 23, 2008
  41. Peter ZijlstraJun 23, 2008
  42. Jeff KingJun 23, 2008
  43. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  44. Jakub NarebskiJun 16, 2008
  45. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008

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