Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories

From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: Aug 16, 2018, 00:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20180816001939.GA31703@pug.qqx.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180808223323.79989-3-bmwill@google.com>

At 15:33 -0700 08 Aug 2018, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:

>Teach "submodule_name_to_gitdir()" to munge a submodule's name (by url
>encoding it) before using it to build a path to the submodule's gitdir.

Seems like this will be a problem if it results in names that exceed NAME_MAX? On common systems that's 255, so it's probably not going to be common; but it certainly could for some repositories.

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