On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Shawn Pearce <spea...@spearce.org> wrote:
> I'm with you this far, and like the {min,max}_update_index in the
> header. I'm concerned about update_index in 32 bits. At some point you
> need to reset the counter, or the repository is broken. 4b updates is
> enough for anyone? I'd feel better about this being a 64 bit field.Yes, I was a little bit nervous about 32 bits, too. But that's a *lot* of updates: one per second for 136 years. If that limit were ever reached, there could be a compaction step, where any update indices that don't have associated reflog entries are "compacted out" of the numerical sequence and the remaining indices are renumbered contiguously. But it's ok with me to make it 64 bits. Usually those extra bytes would be appear as FFFFFFFF and so should prefix- and zlib-compress well. Michael
