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[v3] doc: fix the max number of git show-branches shown

Message ID pull.1757.v3.git.1720318768439.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series [v3] doc: fix the max number of git show-branches shown | expand

Commit Message

Rikita Ishikawa July 7, 2024, 2:19 a.m. UTC 
From: wonda-tea-coffee <lagrange.resolvent@gmail.com>

The number to be displayed is calculated by the
following defined in object.h.

```
  #define REV_SHIFT        2
  #define MAX_REVS        (FLAG_BITS - REV_SHIFT)
```

FLAG_BITS is currently 28, so 26 is the correct
number.

Signed-off-by: Rikita Ishikawa <lagrange.resolvent@gmail.com>
---
    doc: fix the max number of git show-branches shown
    
    Changes since v1:
    
     * Explain in the commit message why "26" is the correct number.
     * No change (to rename GitHub and re-send).

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1757%2Fwonda-tea-coffee%2Fupdate-git-show-branch-description-v3
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1757/wonda-tea-coffee/update-git-show-branch-description-v3
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1757

Range-diff vs v2:

 1:  6fc335807d2 = 1:  c1e236d843c doc: fix the max number of git show-branches shown


 Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


base-commit: 06e570c0dfb2a2deb64d217db78e2ec21672f558
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
index c771c897707..bc31d8b6d33 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@  Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named
 with <rev>s or <glob>s (or all refs under refs/heads
 and/or refs/tags) semi-visually.
 
-It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time.
+It cannot show more than 26 branches and commits at a time.
 
 It uses `showbranch.default` multi-valued configuration items if
 no <rev> or <glob> is given on the command line.