From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:33:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510261031400.7424@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5ltcf05.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Using dc is not really necessary, since expr understands summing 32 bit 
> > signed integers. Which means that git-count-objects will now fail when 2 
> > GB of unpacked objects have accumulated.
> 
> Sorry, but I am not very happy about this patch.  "local"
> bashism aside, doesn't this spawn expr for every unpacked
> object?

Aargh! I had the impression "expr" was a builtin... Just forget about the 
patch, okay?

Ciao,
Dscho