From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 22:42:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] reftable: use `uint16_t` to track restart interval
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In-Reply-To: <05e8d1df2d9921426b803d71b22ba3dba188836c.1715336798.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> The restart interval can at most be `UINT16_MAX` as specified in the
> technical documentation of the reftable format. Furthermore, it cannot
> ever be negative. Regardless of that we use an `int` to track the
> restart interval.
>
> Change the type to use an `uint16_t` instead.

Not wrong per-se, but this one is more or less a Meh, as we know we
do not work on 16-bit platforms anyway.