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From:	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:45:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So if anything, I would put a comment here, explaining that ustar cannot
> > handle anything larger than this, and POSIX mandates it (but I didn't
> > because the commit message already goes into much more detail).
> 
> That sounds like a good thing to do.  Not everybody runs "blame" to
> find the commit whose log message she must read before touching a
> line.

Well, they should. My commit messages are works of literature. ;)

I'll add a comment.

-Peff