From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make reflog query '@{1219188291}' act as '@{2008/08/19 16:24:51}'
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:54:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080820195401.GD16626@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080820194407.GJ3483@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 21:44:07 +0200:
>
> We could pick any number for the limit, just so long as its so
> large that the size of the reflog for it to be a valid @{nth}
> request would be something like 1 TB, and thus be highly unlikely.
>
> I was just trying to be cute by using the original commit timestamp
> of Git itself. Perhaps 12936648 (1TB / 83)?
How about the maximum value the platform's size_t can handle?
Not because it is "highly unlikely", but because you and me frankly
have no idea exactly how unlikely for example a "12936648 terabytes" is?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 23:44 [PATCH] Make reflog query '@{1219188291}' act as '@{2008/08/19 16:24:51}' Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-19 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-20 0:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-20 19:35 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-20 19:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-20 19:54 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-08-20 20:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-20 20:09 ` Alex Riesen
2008-08-20 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-21 15:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080820195401.GD16626@blimp.local \
--to=raa.lkml@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=spearce@spearce.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.