[PATCH 0/2] tagsize < 8kb restriction

["Björn Engelmann" <BjEngelmann@gmx.de>]

Hi,

I am currently working on an interface for source code quality assurance
tools to automatically scan newly commited code. Since it is the only
way to add data (scan-results) to an already-existing commit, I decided
to use tags for that.

Since the scan-results will most definitly exeed the 8kb-limit, I would
like to remove this artificial restriction.

I know I could also

    git-hash-object -t tag -w

but prefer using the "official" way.


In order not to write duplicate code I used parts of index_pipe() in
sha1_file.c

What I found odd when writing the patch was that main() in mktag.c uses
xread() to read from stdin (which respects EAGAIN and EINTR return
values), but index_pipe() in sha1_file.c just uses read() for doing
merely the same thing. For unifying both routines i found that xread()
might be the better choice.

Removing the restriction was pretty straightforward but do you think
this would break something in other places ?


[PATCH 1/2]
    remove the < 8kb restrinction from git-mktag

[PATCH 2/2]
    add more informative error messages to git-mktag


Bj