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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] vcs-svn: incremental import
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:24:16 +0100
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Heya,

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 23:54, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Patch 1 changes the mark numbers for blobs to be ridiculously high,
> to make room for memorable commit marks (:1 for r1, :2 for r2, etc).

How high is rediculously high? There are repositories with a lot of
commits, will they have enough room? Ditto for repositories with a lot
of blobs, will _those_ have enough room? What about the git
fast-import side, what about this statement:

"Marks are stored in a sparse array, using 1 pointer (4 bytes or 8
bytes, depending on pointer size) per mark. Although the array is
sparse, frontends are still strongly encouraged to use marks between 1
and n, where n is the total number of marks required for this import."

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier