Re: [RFC] Bump {diff,merge}.renameLimit ?
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> > > * The feedback about the limit is better today than when we last changed
> > > the limits, and folks can configure a higher limit relatively easily.
> > > Many already have.
> >
> > I can't remember the last time I saw the limit kick in in practice, but
> > then I don't generally work with super-large repos (and my workflows
> > typically do not encourage merging across big segments of history).
> > Nor do I remember the topic coming up on the list after the last bump.
> > So maybe that means that people are happily bumping the limits
> > themselves via config.
>
> It might also mean that you're missing more emails than you used to,
> or just forgot them. :-)
>
> e.g.:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20171129201154.192379-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20171113201600.24878-1-newren@gmail.com/
>
> But I do certainly suspect it's come up less often than it would have before.
Oh, indeed. Thanks for some counterexamples. :)
-Peff