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Subject: Re: don't accept bogus N in `HEAD~N'
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
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>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Jim Meyering wrote:
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>>>> It'd be better to produce a diagnostic and fail:
>
> I agree with you that we are loose in integer overlaps.  Some of

Oops; I meant overflow or wraparound.. Late night typo/thinko X-<.