Re: [PATCH 07/11] pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2018, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <87zi3sc6q1.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180301091052.32267-8-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 01 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy jotted:

> pack. Use an index isntead since the number of packs should be

s/isntead/instead/

> This limits the number of packs we can handle to 256 (still
> unreasonably high for a repo to work well). If you have more than 256
> packs, you'll need an older version of Git to repack first.

So if you have gc.autoPackLimit=300 this will break, how does it break?

Should we also make (& document) setting that variable higher than 256 an error?

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