Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > My personal suspicion is that we'll want to have a 64-bit index file some > day, and THAT is worthy of a format change. That day is not now, btw. It's > probably not even very close. Even the mozilla repo that was pushing the > limit was only doing so until it was optimized better, and now it's > apparently nowhere _near_ that limit. > > But even then, we might well want to update _just_ the index file format. We've tried this already, and I shelved the patch for 64-index for now due to exactly the same reasoning as yours (and it would have conflicted heavily with Shawn's windowed-mmap() patch). It involved updating just the index file format, so you are right on both counts. But you are always right anyway, so it may not be a news at all ;-). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html