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

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:58:26 +0100

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.)

> +	)
> +'

-- Hannes