Heya,
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 23:54, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:
Patch 1 changes the mark numbers for blobs to be ridiculously high,
to make room for memorable commit marks (:1 for r1, :2 for r2, etc).
How high is rediculously high? There are repositories with a lot of
commits, will they have enough room? Ditto for repositories with a lot
of blobs, will _those_ have enough room? What about the git
fast-import side, what about this statement:
"Marks are stored in a sparse array, using 1 pointer (4 bytes or 8
bytes, depending on pointer size) per mark. Although the array is
sparse, frontends are still strongly encouraged to use marks between 1
and n, where n is the total number of marks required for this import."
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Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier