From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] index: be careful when handling long names
Message-ID: <7vejckjf1o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080113233323.GB19970@steel.home>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, Mon, Jan 14, 2008 00:08:07 +0100:
> ...
>> I would agree that it might overflow the argument limit when
>> this is given to "echo", though.  We cannot do much about it,
>> but you may have cleverer ideas.
>
> I thought about conditionally disabling the test, like it was done
> when the tabs in filenames had to be tested.

Yes, we can and should do that when somebody reports this (or
any other tests) a real issue, as we have done for other tests.