From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:05:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry
Message-ID: <xmqqzi3rhdsu.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180301091052.32267-8-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Instead of using 8 bytes (on 64 bit arch) to store a pointer to a
> pack. Use an index isntead since the number of packs should be
> relatively small.
>
> This limits the number of packs we can handle to 256 (still
> unreasonably high for a repo to work well). If you have more than 256
> packs, you'll need an older version of Git to repack first.

I can tell without looking at the rest of the thread that people had
reasonable objection against this stance ;-)  This will not fly well.