Re: [msysGit] [PATCH] Prevent buffer overflows when path is too big

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My main motive was to not *stop* the process when a long path is met.
> Because somebody created a repository on Linux with a long file-name
> doesn't mean you should not be able to clone it *at all* on Windows.

That should be handled at the Windows compatibility layer if Windows
cannot handle long paths as Linux (or maybe at higher level to skip
checking out those paths). For PATH_MAX value, see [1].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169012/focus=169310
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Duy
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