Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] path.c: avoid PATH_MAX as buffer size from get_pathname()

> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
>> If we really want to go away from PATH_MAX, is a hard-coded value of 4096 so attractive ?
>> Because we can either
>>
>> a) Re-define PATH_MAX in git-compat-util.h
>> b) Use an own  #define in git-compat-util.h, like e.g. GIT_PATH_MAX
>> c) Change the code to use a "strbuf" which can grow on demand.
>>
>> I would prefer c) over b) over a)
>
> Looking at the code again, c) looks feasible after updating
> git_snpath() to accept a strbuf instead of buffer/size pair.