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patchIncrease the size of the die/warning buffer to avoid truncation

Subject: [PATCH] Increase the size of the die/warning buffer to avoid truncation

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Shawn O. Pearce· Mar 24, 2009, 23:10 UTC · lore

Long messages like those from lockfile.c when a lock can't be obtained truncate with only 256 bytes in the message buffer. Bump it to 1024 to give more space for these longer cases.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 This works around the truncation I noticed in the error message
 from the second command in the sequence:
   $ git branch foo.lock
   $ git branch foo
 usage.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Show changes to usage.c +1 −1
diff --git a/usage.c b/usage.c
index 24f5fc0..820d09f 100644
--- a/usage.c
+++ b/usage.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 static void report(const char *prefix, const char *err, va_list params)
 {
-	char msg[256];
+	char msg[1024];
 	vsnprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), err, params);
 	fprintf(stderr, "%s%s\n", prefix, msg);
 }
-- 
1.6.2.1.471.g682837

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