Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 23:54, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> 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? 2^30. Later in the series (vcs-svn: eliminate repo_tree structure) the blob marks are eliminated altogether. > "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." I assume that is mostly meant to make it easier to write alternate backends. -- 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