Am 12/14/2010 8:43, schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Am 12/14/2010 6:32, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> 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! > > Does that mean Windows won't accept any path longer than that, or > PATH_MAX is defined just for fun? It is the limit for path names that we can have without MAJOR extra efforts. It is not a limit implied by the file system. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html