Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: 2005-10-28 07:13:05
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

[...]

> Not that the current loop is any better for that purpose.  We
> silently ignore not just dangling ref and ref not storing
> 40-byte hex, but files starting with a period '.',  names longer
> than 255 bytes, and unreadable ones, all of which we would
> probably want to warn about in such a tool.

I have yet to come across a filesystem allowing names of more than 255
characters... 
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