Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pkt-line: allow writing of LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers

From: Jeff King <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:00:58 -0500

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