From ef0b4a11814823add81ee4551b9bbcfca894648d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:26:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] request --- doc/todo/maximum_page_length.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/maximum_page_length.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/maximum_page_length.mdwn b/doc/todo/maximum_page_length.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a158126d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/maximum_page_length.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +It would be useful if ikiwiki could reject adding file with names +longer than some limit, like 255 bytes. I've had some git-annex users +complain that some files ended up longer than that, which won't work on +some OS's and filesystems. + +255 might be a good default value, even. + +This would apply to pages created following broken wikilinks and using +blogpost forms, as well as to uploaded attachments, and perhaps aggregated +pages. In the wikilink case, I guess ikiwiki would need to reject it as +too long; in the other cases it could simply pick a shorter version of +the proposed filename. + +--[[Joey]] -- 2.39.5