Re: [PATCH v3] pkt-line: allow writing of LARGE_PACKET_MAX buffers

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Below is a another iteration on the patch. The actual code changes are
the same as the strbuf one, but the tests take care to avoid assuming
the filesystem can handle such a long path. Testing on Windows and OS X
is appreciated.

All three new tests fail on OS X. Thus far brief examination of the
first failing tests shows that 'expect' and 'actual' differ:

expect:
    long
    master

actual:
    master

Note that in addition to cheating on the creation of the long ref, I had
to tweak the fetch test a little to avoid writing the loose ref there,
too. That makes the test a little weaker (it is not as "end to end",
checking that all parts of fetch can handle it), but it does check the
thing we are changing here, that the protocol code can handle it.