Re: [PATCH] Set hard limit on delta chain depth

>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to make the limit a config option rather
>>> than a hard-coded value of 128 (which seems arbitrary to me)? After
>>> all, different platforms have different stack-limitations...
>>
>> Then it'd make more sense to make a compile time config based on
>> platform.
>
> Can how much stack each recursion use be calculated at compile-time?
> If so, I agree with you.

>> We could have a config option that can override the default,
>> but I really don't see the point of making long delta chains.
>
> Aha, I figured you _did_ see a point in this, because 128 seemed
> excessive to me already. I was thinking more that some platforms can
> have a much smaller stack than (I would expect to) fit in 128
> recursions (I've worked relatively recently with platforms with as
> small as a static 2k stack per process), so you might not be fixing
> the issue for such platforms. But that's not really your
> responsibility either ;)