From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Message-ID: <7vd5ltcf05.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510260120260.28994@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Using dc is not really necessary, since expr understands summing 32 bit 
> signed integers. Which means that git-count-objects will now fail when 2 
> GB of unpacked objects have accumulated.

Sorry, but I am not very happy about this patch.  "local"
bashism aside, doesn't this spawn expr for every unpacked
object?