Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:
Currently the treshold is 5000. The likelihood of this value to ever be
crossed for a single push is really small making it not really useful.
I started that out at 5000 because it was a reasonably safe
threshold. Users who didn't explicitly lower this value didn't
enable the feature. But it was still useful on initial pushes into
a brand new repository when the project was very large. For example
pushing git.git into a bare repository *sucked* before this change.
Yea, 5000 is probably too high. Nice to see it drop.
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