From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:53:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] index: be careful when handling long names
Message-ID: <20080113225321.GA19970@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vhchhpd3h.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano, Sun, Jan 13, 2008 23:36:34 +0100:
> +test_expect_success 'very long name in the index handled sanely' '
> +
> +	a=a && # 1
> +	a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 16
> +	a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 256
> +	a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 4096

I'd expect it to fail on some systems (everywindowsthing up to w2k,
maybe some commercial unices).