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
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