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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:41:38 -0400
From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Bump {diff,merge}.renameLimit ?
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

> > > * The feedback about the limit is better today than when we last changed
> > >   the limits, and folks can configure a higher limit relatively easily.
> > >   Many already have.
> >
> > I can't remember the last time I saw the limit kick in in practice, but
> > then I don't generally work with super-large repos (and my workflows
> > typically do not encourage merging across big segments of history).
> > Nor do I remember the topic coming up on the list after the last bump.
> > So maybe that means that people are happily bumping the limits
> > themselves via config.
> 
> It might also mean that you're missing more emails than you used to,
> or just forgot them.  :-)
> 
> e.g.:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20171129201154.192379-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20171113201600.24878-1-newren@gmail.com/
> 
> But I do certainly suspect it's come up less often than it would have before.

Oh, indeed. Thanks for some counterexamples. :)

-Peff