Re: What's so special about objects/17/ ?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2018, 01:07 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzhvorkq7.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87h8hwafof.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Depending on how we're counting there's at least two.

I thought you were asking "why the special sentinel is not 0{40}?" You counted the number of reasons why 0{40} is used to stand in for a real value, but that was the number I didn't find interesting in the scope of this discussion, i.e. "why the special sample is 17?"

I vaguely recall we also used 0{39}1 for something else long time ago; I offhand do not recall if we still do, or we got rid of it.

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