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From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for help to understand external filter driver code
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:59:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578F3D5E.2070201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3ape2ju.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

W dniu 2016-07-19 o 23:33, Junio C Hamano pisze:
> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> > 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...
 
>> > Git writes --> 4 byte content length
>> > Git writes --> content string

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

;-)
-- 
Jakub Narębski

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-19 16:40 Looking for help to understand external filter driver code Lars Schneider
2016-07-19 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 18:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 20:44     ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-19 21:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-19 22:01         ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-20  2:33           ` Torsten Bögershausen
2016-07-20  8:59         ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2016-07-20  9:43           ` Lars Schneider
2016-07-20 13:49         ` Jeff King

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