From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:19:09 GMT
Subject: Re: PATH_MAX (Re: [PATCH] system_path: use a static buffer)
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAD9BurpAZnAjMLvr_wCV-ScS2tsBFY_fs9Jen@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110318113818.GA6049@elie>

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is indeed possible to have paths with length longer than that.  The
> way to support that is to use relative paths wherever possible, which
> does sound to me like an interesting long-term goal (mostly because I
> suspect the result would be easier to read and, especially, to reason
> about with respect to race conditions).

A shorter-term goal is to set a path limit config on trees inside the
repo, so people on Linux won't accidentally make paths longer than the
limit their Windows fellows have. I think it would be easy to do the
check around index (old trees in repo are left alone, inspecting
history does not have such a limit).
-- 
Duy