From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pkt-line: allow writing of LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:00:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141209200058.GA11481@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54875462.3040305@kdbg.org>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:58:26PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 09.12.2014 um 18:49 schrieb Jeff King:
> > +test_expect_success 'create repo with absurdly long refname' '
> > + ref240=$_z40/$_z40/$_z40/$_z40/$_z40/$_z40
> > + ref1440=$ref240/$ref240/$ref240/$ref240/$ref240/$ref240 &&
> > + git init long &&
> > + (
> > + cd long &&
> > + test_commit long &&
> > + test_commit master &&
> > + git update-ref refs/heads/$ref1440 long
>
> Having this ref on the filesystem is going to fail on Windows, I presume
> (our limit is 260). Can we stuff it away as a packed ref right from the
> beginning? (And turn off reflogs, BTW.)
Yeah, after sending that, I wondered if it would cause problems.
I don't think it would be too hard to just cat it right into the
packed-refs file. The other option would be to try creating it, and set
a prereq to skip other tests if it fails.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-09 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-09 17:49 [RFC/PATCH] pkt-line: allow writing of LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers Jeff King
2014-12-09 18:09 ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10 4:36 ` Michael Blume
2014-12-10 7:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Jeff King
2014-12-10 8:36 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-12-10 9:42 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-12-10 9:49 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-12-10 9:53 ` Jeff King
2014-12-10 10:39 ` [PATCH 0/3] convert read_packed_refs to use strbuf Jeff King
2014-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] read_packed_refs: use a strbuf for reading lines Jeff King
2014-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] read_packed_refs: pass strbuf to parse_ref_line Jeff King
2014-12-10 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] read_packed_refs: use skip_prefix instead of static array Jeff King
2014-12-10 17:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] convert read_packed_refs to use strbuf Junio C Hamano
2014-12-10 9:47 ` [PATCH v4] pkt-line: allow writing of LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers Jeff King
2014-12-10 9:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-12-10 20:14 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-12-10 21:06 ` Jeff King
2014-12-09 19:58 ` [RFC/PATCH] " Johannes Sixt
2014-12-09 20:00 ` Jeff King [this message]
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