Re: [JGIT PATCH 01/14] Detect path names which overflow the name length field in the index

> tisdagen den 19 augusti 2008 01.53.09 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
> > C Git allows a path name to be longer than 4095 bytes by storing 4095
> > into the path name length field within flags and then searching for a
> > null terminator at the end of the path name, instead of relying on the
> > length indicatior.  We cannot do this (easily) from an InputStream so
> > we are currently going to just abort with an exception if we find such
> > an extremely long path name.
> 
> What's hard? read bytes until we get a 0 shouldn't be hard. It has no
> special meaning to an InputStream.