Re: [JGIT PATCH 01/14] Detect path names which overflow the name length field in the index

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

C Git allows a path name to be longer than 4095 bytes by storing 4095
into the path name length field within flags and then searching for a
null terminator at the end of the path name, instead of relying on the
length indicatior.

This reminds me.

In the longer term, we should make this "CE_NAMEMASK gives the real length
for sane names but otherwise we need to count" merely a property of the
on-disk index structure.  In-core index should gain a new ce_namelen field
that records the real name (even when it is longer than the mask would
permit).  IOW, the knowledge of CE_NAMEMASK should be confined to
read_index_from() and ce_write_entry().

I expect this to be a relatively easy janitor project; hint, hint...