Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So there's a few rules to packedgitwindowsize:

 - we need to be able to have at least two windows open at a time, in 
   addition to all the "normal" memory git needs just for objects, of 
   course. And quite frankly, you'd be better off with a few more windows, 
   even if that obviously implies smaller windows.

Btw, I'm not 100% certain of this. Somebody should double-check me. Maybe 
there are cases where we want more than two windows alive. And maybe there 
aren't even that, and we can always make do with just one.

So I will _not_ guarantee that "at least two pack windows" is necessarily 
the right answer. The windowing code was mostly other people doing it. I 
think Shawn and Nico.

			Linus