Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 01:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071726020.3283@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071702190.3283@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> So there's a few rules to packedgitwindowsize:
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>  - we need to be able to have at least two windows open at a time, in 
>    addition to all the "normal" memory git needs just for objects, of 
>    course. And quite frankly, you'd be better off with a few more windows, 
>    even if that obviously implies smaller windows.

Btw, I'm not 100% certain of this. Somebody should double-check me. Maybe there are cases where we want more than two windows alive. And maybe there aren't even that, and we can always make do with just one.

So I will _not_ guarantee that "at least two pack windows" is necessarily the right answer. The windowing code was mostly other people doing it. I think Shawn and Nico.

			Linus