Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

[...]

Not that the current loop is any better for that purpose.  We
silently ignore not just dangling ref and ref not storing
40-byte hex, but files starting with a period '.',  names longer
than 255 bytes, and unreadable ones, all of which we would
probably want to warn about in such a tool.

I have yet to come across a filesystem allowing names of more than 255
characters... 
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