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

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Generates file ids that are too long
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77453

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