Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:14:49PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Octopus merges are limited to 16 parents. > > The note about this in fast-import is out of date (e.g., see > t/t7602-merge-octopus-many.sh and v1.6.0-rc0~194, 2008-06-27). How > about this patch? Aha! I

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > >> Octopus merges are limited to 16 parents. > > The note about this in fast-import is out of date (e.g., see > t/t7602-merge-octopus-many.sh and v1.6.0-rc0~194, 2008-06-27). How > about this patch? Ahh, I thought we

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > How > about this patch? I think I botched the wording. Here's a second try. -- >8 -- Subject: fast-import doc: remove suggested 16-parent limit Merges with an absurd number of parents are still a bad idea

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mike Hommey wrote: > Octopus merges are limited to 16 parents. The note about this in fast-import is out of date (e.g., see t/t7602-merge-octopus-many.sh and v1.6.0-rc0~194, 2008-06-27). How about this patch? -- >8-- Subject: fast-import doc: remove suggested 16-parent limit Merges with an abs

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mike Hommey writes: > Octopus merges are limited to 16 parents. Huh? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:23:23PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > > So I thought, since commits are already allowed in tree objects, for > > submodules, why not add a bit to the mode that would tell git that > > those commit object references are meant to always be there a

RE: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Randall S. Becker
On March 31, 2015 3:55 PM Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Mike Hommey" > [...] > > So I thought, since commits are already allowed in tree objects, for > > submodules, why not add a bit to the mode that would tell git that > > those commit object references are meant to always be there aka strong >

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Mike Hommey writes: > So I thought, since commits are already allowed in tree objects, for > submodules, why not add a bit to the mode that would tell git that > those commit object references are meant to always be there aka strong > reference, as opposed to the current weak references for submo

Re: Allowing weak references to blobs and strong references to commits

2015-03-31 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Mike Hommey" [...] So I thought, since commits are already allowed in tree objects, for submodules, why not add a bit to the mode that would tell git that those commit object references are meant to always be there aka strong reference, as opposed to the current weak references for submo