On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Jacopo Notarstefano <jacopo.notarstefano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Nice. new_ref is passed in install_branch_config() in latest code. I guess you already made sure this function did not make any assumption about new_ref's length? > > 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 > > -- > 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 -- Duy -- 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