Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:05, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>
>>>+ abs_path = abs_path_to_lock_file (fs, lock->path, pool);
>>
>>As we discussed on IRC, this is a problem. I don't think we ompose
>>pathname limits on the system on which the repository is stored into the
>>repository.
>
>
> I don't think this is a problem likely to bite users in practice. (Why
> do we think the server filesystem will commonly have more restrictive
> length limitations than the client filesystems?) I think all of the
> proposed solutions are too complicated.
If you're only checking out a subset of the directory tree you might not
hit the path length limitation on the client. That said, it is an edge
case, and probably a rare one, so I could be convinced that the
complexity isn't worth it.
-garrett
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Received on Wed Dec 8 05:01:44 2004