Since commit 6f084a56 the length of a newly tracked branch name was limited
to 1019 = 1024 - 7 - 7 - 1 characters, a bound derived by having to store
this name in a char[1024] called key with two strings of length at most 7
and a '\0' character.
This was no longer necessary as of commit a9f2c136, which uses a strbuf
(documented in Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt) to store this value.
This patch removes this unneeded check and thus allows for branch names
longer than 1019 characters.
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Notarstefano <jacopo.notarstefano@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Submitted as GSoC microproject #3.
branch.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index 723a36b..05feaff 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -114,10 +114,6 @@ static int setup_tracking(const char *new_ref, const char *orig_ref,
struct tracking tracking;
int config_flags = quiet ? 0 : BRANCH_CONFIG_VERBOSE;
- if (strlen(new_ref) > 1024 - 7 - 7 - 1)
- return error(_("Tracking not set up: name too long: %s"),
- new_ref);
-
memset(&tracking, 0, sizeof(tracking));
tracking.spec.dst = (char *)orig_ref;
if (for_each_remote(find_tracked_branch, &tracking))
--
1.9.0.1.g5abca64
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