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Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> writes:

>> fwiw this is the thread that added --depth=250
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94565/focus=94626
>
> This post is quite interesting:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637

Yes, it most clearly says that --depth=250 was *not* a
recommendation, with technical background to explain why such a long
delta chain is a bad idea.