From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:16:06 GMT
Subject: Re: It seems there is a very tight character count limit in .gitconfig
Message-ID: <20140108071606.GA2859@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFc+-Siu1nyBMWvUG52SXdoMPWE-NZ7GAjWe9C-W=z-MWnn5zg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:59:37PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote:

> I tried to add url xxx insteadof xxx in .gitconfig. If the length of
> url exceed 125, git will not work.
> I am using Ubuntu. The default version is 1.7.9.5. Maybe the latest
> version solve this already.

Yes, this was fixed in 0971e99 (Remove the hard coded length limit on
variable names in config files, 2012-09-30). Git v1.8.0.1 and higher
contain that commit.

-Peff