From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:15:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-verify-pack command. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vvf3xcwyo.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > *** Linus, what would be the practical/recommended/sane limit > *** for mmap regions we would want to use? Currently I start > *** throwing away mapped packs when the total size of mapped > *** packs exceeds 64MB. Hey, anybody who ever used BK had better have had 1GB of memory for any real development. So 64MB is peanuts, but it sounds like a good guess. > *** Oh, again, Linus, what is your preferred way to get a > *** cover-letter material (like this) for a single patch? I don't want cover-letters for single patches, or necessarily even for short series (1-3 entries). The cover letter is more interesting for large series, or even with small series if the early patches don't make much sense on their own: then the cover-letter ends up being a useful place to explain what the _sequence_ does, and why patch #2 that seems to be totally useless and removes a feature is actually good ("we'll re-implement it better in #5 after we've cleaned the code up"). So generally commentaries after the three dashes is good, if the commentary is "local", ie related not to a series. Only with non-local explanations does a separate [0/N] thing make sense to me. Linus