[PATCH] Improved handling of git syntax names with no git repository

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sat Mar 15 10:51:11 PDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
>
> So why didn't you start with 1 or -1? Did you use 8 for alignment on purpose?

No, it's really just a random value that I wanted to be *somewhat*
unique while being a "small" integer. There's literally nothing else
about it. Maybe I should have picked a prime number like 13 just to
make sure it's unaligned and impossible, but I just randomly picked
"8".

             Linus


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