From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:22:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits
Message-ID: <7vzlwevu2k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071212092512.GB20799@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> 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?