On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 11:05:36AM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote: > On 04/03, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > The generation number of a commit is defined recursively as follows: > > > > * If a commit A has no parents, then the generation number of A is one. > > * If a commit A has parents, then the generation number of A is one > > more than the maximum generation number among the parents of A. > > > > Add a uint32_t generation field to struct commit so we can pass this > > Is there any reason to believe this would be too small of a value in the > future? Or is a 32 bit unsigned good enough?
The linux kernel took ~10 years to produce 500k commits. Even assuming those were all linear (and they're not), that gives us ~80,000 years of leeway. So even if the pace of development speeds up or we have a quicker project, it still seems we have a pretty reasonable safety margin. -Peff
