Re: More gitweb queries..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 27, 2005, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271457480.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6lkwgfl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> >>>>> "TG" == Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
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> TG> But I guess 8 is the limit, isn't it? Did you thought to make this 8 a
> TG> 'n' or is 8 just enough? :-)
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> Built-in limit of commit object is 16, not 8.

Actually, even that is not actually built into the commit object itself, that's just a #define in commit-tree.c.

Change the MAXPARENT design from 16 to 1024, and nobody will notice any difference at all, except "git-commit-tree.c" will use 20kB more memory ;)

There's no limit in the data structures, although there clearly is a "sanity" limit (and I personally suspect it comes before you hit 16 ;)

		Linus