From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:16:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit-tree: bump MAX_PARENTS to 128
Message-ID: <7vr6scj9qt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702261736570.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> My recollection is that only git-commit-tree and git-gui knew about this 
>> 16 parent limit.
>
> AFAIRC git-show-branch has a limit of 28 parents or so...

That's limit of the number of _tips_ to traverse from, and I do
not think it has anything to do with maximum size of Octopus.

But as Shawn pointed out, Octopus makes bisect less (much less)
efficient for the end users, I tend to think the current 16 is
already insanely large.