Re: [PATCH] branch.c: delete size check of newly tracked branch names

>> Nice. new_ref is passed in install_branch_config() in latest code. I
>> guess you already made sure this function did not make any assumption
>> about new_ref's length?
>>
>
> The function install_branch_config uses the strbuf, as I wrote in the
> commit message. The contents of this buffer are then fed to
> git_config_set, which, after a few more function calls, parses the key
> with git_config_parse_key. This function does not rely on any
> assumptions (as far as I can tell!) on the name's length, and
> allocates enough space for it in
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/config.c#L1462.