Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] tree-diff.c: reserve space in "base" for pathname concatenation

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:32:58 +0100

Am 12/14/2010 6:32, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> All paths should not exceed PATH_MAX, right?
> 
> Your PATH_MAX may be a lot shorter than the PATH_MAX on the system I
> created my trees on that you are reading.

And that is not just gray theory: On Windows, PATH_MAX is whopping 260
characters!

-- Hannes