From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:30:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7iclx4nw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080619072308.GA12727@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (Karl Hasselström's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:23:08 +0200")
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
> So how many parents can a commit have, exactly? Is there a hard limit
> somewhere, or just a point beyond which some git tools will start
> behaving strangely?
There is no hard limit at the data structure level.
git-commit-tree has a hard limit of accepting 16 parents. git-blame has
the same 16-parent limit while following the history (but the one in
'next' has lifted the latter limitation).
But that is purely academic. Anybody who does an octopus with more than 8
legs should get his head examined ;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-19 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 11:01 git-rerere observations and feature suggestions Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 11:09 ` Mike Hommey
2008-06-16 15:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-06-16 15:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-06-16 16:18 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-17 7:37 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-16 11:26 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 11:27 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-16 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 20:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 21:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] rerere: rerere_created_at() and has_resolution() abstraction Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] git-rerere: detect unparsable conflicts Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] rerere: remove dubious "tail_optimization" Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] t4200: fix rerere test Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 9:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] rerere.autoupdate Junio C Hamano
2008-06-18 10:57 ` git-rerere observations and feature suggestions Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 11:29 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-18 18:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 19:53 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-18 11:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-18 22:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-18 22:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 7:23 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 7:29 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 7:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-19 8:21 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 8:33 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 9:19 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-19 10:06 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-19 10:35 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-06-16 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 19:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-23 9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-23 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-23 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-23 15:12 ` Jeff King
2008-06-23 15:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-16 20:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-17 10:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
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