$ osc rdiff -u openSUSE:Factory sysconfig | wc -l 261
why 261 ? ;-) is that 256 + 5 or ... The magic number is 200:) - the maximum number of lines for each file is 200 (without the header). This value is hardcoded in the bs_srcserver but I have no clue why. I assume there's a limit in order to avoid too big diffs because at
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518304
User suse-tux@gmx.de added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518304#c1
Marcus Hüwe