Re: Fixed length character buffers?

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> I added a file with an URL that's longer than 255 characters. It was just
> truncated, so we have a problem for people with very long paths...

Problem in the sense that $URL$ was not the entire file path, not in the sense
that it took over their machine and started sending cyborgs back in time. ;-)

> I'm not completely sure what happens with the translation routines fi we
> just lift this limit, though.

SVN_KEYWORD_MAX_LEN predates the keywords-as-hash code. There shouldn't be any
reason that it has to stay that way; AFAICT, this was just a "we'll never need
to exceed this for a single line" assumption (and we know what that leads to ;).

Since I know the keywords code better than most, I'll try and take a walk down
memory lane and see if there is any reason why we cannot drop the fixed length
limit. If Erik wants to rewrite this code to use stringbufs instead, more power
to him...

John

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