Scott M. Ferris

+1 git uses hash prefix subdirs using the first 2 hex characters (8 bits) of the hash (a hash such as efdeadbeef would be stored in ef/deadbeef). For older filesystems,...

The default soft limit is low so that people notice fd leaks, and because most processes don't need to keep a lot of files open, but a process that does...

I'm neutral to the idea of scripting. The flexibility might be nice, but I have to wonder what the costs of it would be in terms of runtime performance, development...

Another (possibly crazy) approach that avoids the duplicate traversal of the -from-{command,stdin} would be a --filter-command option, which specifies a filter program for bupstash to run with pipes for stdin...