Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:12:58 -0700

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> Using dc is not really necessary, since expr understands summing 32 bit 
> signed integers. Which means that git-count-objects will now fail when 2 
> GB of unpacked objects have accumulated.

Sorry, but I am not very happy about this patch.  "local"
bashism aside, doesn't this spawn expr for every unpacked
object?