Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > The implementation is done with xargs, which should be widely available; > it's in POSIX, we rely on it already in the test suite. And "coccicheck" > is really a developer-only tool anyway, so it's not a big deal if > obscure systems can't run it.
OK. > I left the default at 1 for safety. Probably 4 or 16 would be an OK > default, but I don't have any interest in figuring out exactly what > Travis or some hypothetical average machine can handle. I'll be setting > mine to 999. ;) > > Making "0" work as "unlimited" might be nice, but xargs doesn't support > that and I didn't want to make the recipe any more unreadable than it > already is. Sounds good. After reading the log message, I was curious if there is a mechanism that makes 999 special (like 0 in your hypothetical "0 means unlimited"), but I guess it is just "any number that is greater than the number of source files we have will do". Thanks.
