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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: octopus limit
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:56 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806271259440.9925@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806262243130.2988@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Len Brown wrote:

> it would be nice if a merge of more than 16 branches failed right at the 
> start, rather than chunking along doing merges and then giving up, 
> leaving my repo in an intermediate state.

FWIW I think the rewrite of git-merge as a builtin, which is currently in 
the works, lifts the limit.  However, this is only true if you do not use 
a custom script which calls commit-tree.

Ciao,
Dscho

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27  2:44 octopus limit Len Brown
2008-06-27  6:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-27 13:04   ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-27 12:00 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-06-27 12:24   ` [PATCH] commit-tree: lift completely arbitrary limit of 16 parents Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 13:00     ` Johannes Sixt
2008-06-27 13:02       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-27 17:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-27 17:46       ` Johannes Schindelin

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