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

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2008, 18:32 UTC
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tisdagen den 19 augusti 2008 01.53.09 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
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> 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.

-- robin
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Message 17 of 20 in “TreeWalk D/F conflict detection”
  1. 00/14 TreeWalk D/F conflict detectionShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  2. 01/14 Detect path names which overflow the name length field in the indexShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  3. 02/14 Fix NB.decodeUInt16 to correctly handle the high byteShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  4. 03/14 Add test cases for NB.encode and NB.decode family of routinesShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  5. 04/14 Fix DirCache's skip over null byte padding when reading a DIRC fileShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  6. 05/14 Fix usage of assertEquals in DirCacheIteratorTestShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  7. 06/14 Refactor AbstractTreeIterator.pathCompare to force another modeShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  8. 07/14 Micro-optimize AbstractTreeIterator.pathCompareShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  9. 08/14 Optimize path comparsion within subtrees during TreeWalkShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  10. 09/14 Refactor AbstractTreeIterator semantics to start on first entryShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  11. 10/14 Make all AbstractTreeIterator implementations bi-directionalShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  12. 11/14 Expose beginning of iterator indication from AbstractTreeIteratorShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  13. 12/14 Allow application code to set ObjectIds in DirCacheEntryShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  14. 13/14 Create NameConflictTreeWalk to transparently detect D/F conflictsShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  15. 14/14 Add test case for NameConflictTreeWalkShawn O. Pearce, Aug 18, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2008
  17. Robin RosenbergAug 19, 2008
  18. Shawn O. PearceAug 19, 2008
  19. David WoodhouseAug 19, 2008
  20. Shawn O. PearceAug 19, 2008

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