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Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2007, 03:22 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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>> the path at the beginning happens to be longer than 1024 then you will
>> run path-less "cvs status"?
>
> No, read the loop again. The length starts at 0, so we always go through
> the loop body once.
Sorry, you are right.

Perhaps pick a reasonably small but not insanely small value, like 16kB, forget about the atomicity issues for now, as an interim improvement patch?

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