On 13 Jan 2007, Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > status confirmed > affects /bzr > > Bazaar needs to have a consistent policy as to what length file ids are > allowed or should at least throw a decent exception if a file id is > being added that is too long to be stored by the current revision store.
I agree. > What characters are being escaped, how and what the maximum length of a > file id therefore is is not something upper layers should have knowledge > of. > > Robert hacked up a repository some time ago that allowed infinite (well, > somewhat) revision ids by using the checksum of a file id as filename. > Maybe this could be incorporated into the main tree sometime? At minimum, the next format should not allow errors to result from passing in overly-long or otherwise hostile ids. I'm ok with doing a change that does only that, but it is not a priority for me at the moment -- I would rather format changes also work on efficiency. -- Martin -- Generates file ids that are too long https://launchpad.net/bugs/77453 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
