From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:28:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Super long branch names corrupt `.git/config`
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In-Reply-To: <CAAmo=1BU5N8nbonEb1aZEx=-e8VexwsE74pjm_56dXmCDK+K6g@mail.gmail.com>

Ben Olive <sionide21@gmail.com> writes:

> My `.git/config` can be corrupted if I try to get a local branch with
> an extremely long name to track a remote branch.
>
> Here is a (contrived) example to reproduce the issue:

Don't do that, then ;-)

I think we have a change that is already cooking.

Ben (Walton), want to add a test for your 0971e99 (Remove the hard
coded length limit on variable names in config files, 2012-09-30)
before it hits 'next', perhaps?