On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 06:06:27PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> > Is there anything you'd like me to do in this patch, other than fixing
> > the typo?
>
> Please explain in the commit message why 10000 is a good choice for that
> new limit, and what users who happen to exceed it can do to regain
> access to their packed data.
I think it may be worth making this a configurable value
(core.maxDeltaDepth or something). Nobody would generally need to tweak
it, but it would give an escape hatch for getting people out of a broken
situation ("git -c core.maxDeltaDepth=50000 repack" or similar).
-Peff
