Re: Looking for help to understand external filter driver code

On 20 Jul 2016, at 10:59, Jakub Narębski [off-list ref] wrote:

W dniu 2016-07-19 o 23:33, Junio C Hamano pisze:

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Lars Schneider [off-list ref] writes:

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Git writes --> 4 byte filename length
Git writes --> filename string

Why limit to 32GB?  Perhaps NUL termination is more appropriate
here?

Errr, I think limiting _filename_ to 32GB is a reasonable
assumption, for forever...

Well, Java packages can get reaaaally long :D

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Git writes --> 4 byte content length
Git writes --> content string

...while limiting file _content_ to 32GB might not be
future-proof enough.

;-)

I think this is what Junio meant to say. At least I 
interpreted it that way.


- Lars