From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:33:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] read-cache.c: Handle long filenames correctly
Message-ID: <7vobnmfea8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1341998558-8502-2-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

> Make git handle long file/path names (> 4096 characters) correctly.
>
> There is a bug in the current version, which causes very long
> file/pathnames to be handled incorrectly, or not even added to
> the index, if they share the first 4096 characters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>

Ahh, I guess I should have opened my mailbox before starting to look
into this myself ;-)