Shawn O. Pearce, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 21:44:07 +0200:
We could pick any number for the limit, just so long as its so
large that the size of the reflog for it to be a valid @{nth}
request would be something like 1 TB, and thus be highly unlikely.
I was just trying to be cute by using the original commit timestamp
of Git itself. Perhaps 12936648 (1TB / 83)?
How about the maximum value the platform's size_t can handle?
Not because it is "highly unlikely", but because you and me frankly
have no idea exactly how unlikely for example a "12936648 terabytes" is?