Re: [PATCHv3 4/9] pack-objects: Teach new option --max-object-count, similar to --max-pack-size

> On Monday 16 May 2011, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The patch actually does this in the --stdout case. Look at the last
> hunk in builtin/pack-objects.c:
>
> @@ -2349,6 +2366,9 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>
>        if (non_empty && !nr_result)
>                return 0;
> +       if (pack_to_stdout && object_count_limit && object_count_limit < nr_result)
> +               die("unable to make pack within the object count limit"
> +                       " (%lu objects)", object_count_limit);
>        if (nr_result)
>                prepare_pack(window, depth);
>        write_pack_file();
>
> So in the --stdout case, we have already aborted before we start
> writing the pack (i.e. after the counting phase).
>
> The commit message you quote above, are for the case where someone uses
> --max-object-count _without_ --stdout, in which case we compare
> nr_written to object_count_limit to determine when to split the pack.