Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano, Sun, Jan 13, 2008 23:36:34 +0100: >> +test_expect_success 'very long name in the index handled sanely' ' >> + >> + a=a && # 1 >> + a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 16 >> + a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 256 >> + a=$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a$a && # 4096 > > I'd expect it to fail on some systems (everywindowsthing up to w2k, > maybe some commercial unices). My understanding is that Everywindowsthing do not come with any (POSIX compliant) shell that we support by default, so if you are talking about a limit of shell variable value, I do not think it is an issue to begin with. It is just the matter of picking a sensible shell (I understand both Cygwin and msys ports use a shell that supports more than 4k bytes in value given to a variable). I would agree that it might overflow the argument limit when this is given to "echo", though. We cannot do much about it, but you may have cleverer ideas. - 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
