From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 22:07:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/9] pack-objects: Teach new option --max-object-count, similar to --max-pack-size
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In-Reply-To: <1305495440-30836-5-git-send-email-johan@herland.net>

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 14:37, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> The new --max-object-count option behaves similarly to --max-pack-size,
> except that the decision to split packs is determined by the number of
> objects in the pack, and not by the size of the pack.

Like my note about pack size for this case... I think doing this
during writing is too late. We should be aborting the counting phase
if the output pack is to stdout and we are going to exceed this limit.

-- 
Shawn.