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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] git-fast-import: note 1M limit of mark number
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:54:48 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415125222.C55C121CE8F@mail.utsl.gen.nz> (raw)

The insert_mark() function in fast-import.c has this limit; note the
limitation in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
---
 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index c29a4f8..b5cc3c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -410,6 +410,9 @@ or `refs/heads/42`), or an abbreviated SHA-1 which happened to
 consist only of base-10 digits.
 +
 Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used.
++
+Note that due to current internal limitations, you may not make marks
+with a higher number than 1048575 (2^20-1).
 
 * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex.
 
-- 
1.5.4.rc2.85.g7c8f5

             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15 12:54 Sam Vilain [this message]
2008-04-15 15:50 ` [PATCH] git-fast-import: note 1M limit of mark number Michael Haggerty
2008-04-15 21:05   ` Sam Vilain
2008-04-16  6:54     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-16  7:04     ` Michael Haggerty

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