From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:32:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 01/14] Detect path names which overflow the name length field in the index
Message-ID: <200808192032.44078.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1219103602-32222-2-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

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.

-- robin