> 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. Sorry about the delay -- most of my time to poke at this is over the weekend. Will that work? I'd expect that modern pack files end up being offset deltas, rather than reference deltas.
