On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Stefan Fuhrmann wrote: > >> Yesterday, I discovered an inconsistency in our log API. >> svn_revnum_t is a long while the "limit" parameter is >> an int. > > It is not semantically necessary to be able to request an arbitrarily large > batch of log messages -- in other words, for the "limit" parameter to be the > same as, or as big as, svn_revnum_t. > >> Since we have a practical limit of 2^31 on our revision >> numbers > > Just curious: can you easily point to the source(s) of this practical limit? > I'm not particularly surprised, but I wasn't aware of it.
svn_revnum_t is a long, which is 32 bits on many systems. And given that it is *signed*, then we realistically only support 2 billion revisions in one repository. Cheers, -g
