Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It may be hard to test, as I suspect modern versions of Git are not > happy to create such a deep chain. We could test with a lowered value of > the config option, though. Yes, that was what I meant. Start from a 1KB text, create 50 revisions of the file by adding a single line at its end at a time, pack with depth limit of 100, and then see "git log -p" die when the allowed max lowered to 10, or something like that.