On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:10:48PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: > Instead of using 8 bytes (on 64 bit arch) to store a pointer to a > pack. Use an index isntead since the number of packs should be > relatively small. > > This limits the number of packs we can handle to 256 (still > unreasonably high for a repo to work well). If you have more than 256 > packs, you'll need an older version of Git to repack first. I overall like the direction of this series, but I think this one is just too much. While you definitely shouldn't have a ton of packs, this leaves the user with no real escape hatch. And 256 isn't actually that many packs. -Peff
