Re: [PATCH 09/19] tree-diff.c: reserve space in "base" for pathname concatenation

> Am 12/14/2010 8:43, schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>>> Am 12/14/2010 6:32, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>>>> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> All paths should not exceed PATH_MAX, right?
>>>>
>>>> Your PATH_MAX may be a lot shorter than the PATH_MAX on the system I
>>>> created my trees on that you are reading.
>>>
>>> And that is not just gray theory: On Windows, PATH_MAX is whopping 260
>>> characters!
>>
>> Does that mean Windows won't accept any path longer than that, or
>> PATH_MAX is defined just for fun?
>
> It is the limit for path names that we can have without MAJOR extra
> efforts. It is not a limit implied by the file system.