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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Intriguing error with Git 1.6.3.1: Too many open files
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Soham Mehta wrote:

> I haven't played with versions yet.

For almost all purposes, the latest stable version should work fine
(v1.7.8.3 at the moment).  The people on this list tend to be very
keen to hear about cases where that's not true --- if people are stuck
using old versions because of regressions, that means we're failing.

> Are you alluding that #2 on this
> list may have addressed it?
> https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt

Not exactly.  I was thinking of commit c7934306 (Limit file
descriptors used by packs, 2011-02-28).

In git time, 1.6.3.1 is ancient history.  There are many little fixes
and performance improvements you are missing out on.

Just my two cents,
Jonathan