From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:15:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsck: Don't require tmp_obj_ file names are 14 bytes in length
Message-ID: <7vwsj83quc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080727023300.GB17425@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>   Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
>   > Since 5723fe7e, temporary objects are now created in their final destination
>   > directories, rather than in .git/objects/. Teach fsck to recognize and
>   > ignore the temporary objects it encounters, and teach prune to remove them.
>
>   jgit can't exactly follow the 14 character naming rule.
>   This should be a safe way around it.

More importantly, we might want to change the temporary filename to ensure
that it is 38 bytes in length in the future (cf. $gmane/85106).