From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:30:43 -0700 Message-ID: <7v7iclx4nw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080616110113.GA22945@elte.hu> <7vej6xb4lr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080616190911.GA7047@elte.hu> <20080618105731.GA9242@elte.hu> <20080618223821.GJ29404@genesis.frugalware.org> <20080619072308.GA12727@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Miklos Vajna , Jakub Narebski , Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Karl =?utf-8?Q?Hasselstr=C3=B6m?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 19 09:32:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9Ecf-0002wX-L4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:31:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753920AbYFSHbD convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:31:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753759AbYFSHbB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:31:01 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:63005 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597AbYFSHbA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:31:00 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A831869F; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:30:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 091CA1869E; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:30:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080619072308.GA12727@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (Karl =?utf-8?Q?Hasselstr=C3=B6m's?= message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:23:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A993B04C-3DD1-11DD-9A98-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Karl Hasselstr=C3=B6m 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 ha= s 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 tha= n 8 legs should get his head examined ;-).