Maxium Label Length?

[gregsohl]

What is the maximum allowed length of a Label in PlasticSCM v4.1.x.x? Couldn't find it in the doc.

Is there a published doc of all specifications, such as this? Branch name length, comment length, etc.?

Thanks.

Greg

[cidico]

Hi Greg!

I just discovered that the label's comment length is 1000.

Or are you asking about the label name?

[gregsohl]

Sorry I wasn't specific. Yes, I'm asking about the label name. But the 2nd portion of the question is equally important - are all these types of limits documented somewhere?

[cidico]

I did a quick research here and I didn't find anything related to that.

[manu]

Hi,

sorry, but it's not documented. The maximum value is 100 characters.

[cidico]

Hi Manu!

Why didn't you let those fields as varchar(MAX) ?

I mean... the day before yesterday I was creating a label (which would be a merge of X branches) and I was copying & pasting to the label's comment all the comments from the origin branches in the merge but I discovered that the max char is 1000.

This fields could me varchar(max) right? Or is it a limitation of some databases?

[manu]

Hi cidico,

it's a limitation of the different databases we support, you know, you have to choose the common minimum to support all of them.

[manu]

Ey!!

 

We finally did it. Check the "5.0.44.598" release.

 

Release notes:

 

New
Server: Now, the maximum comment size can be manually
configured.
To configure this parameter, add a new tag in the
server's 'db.conf' file, named 'CommentLimit'
in order to set the value for the maximum
allowed comment length (in characters).
Example:
<DbConfig>
...
<CommentLimit>2000</CommentLimit>
...
</DbConfig>

However, this configuration will require the sysadmin
to manually alter the database tables to match
this new value (see column 'scomment' on table 'object').
The comment length limit is set to 1000 characters
by default.
Even so, importing data (cm sync or cm fast-import) will
only store the first 1000 characters of incoming comments,
no matter which value is contained in the 'CommentLimit' tag.

Warning: Please note that replication operations may fail
if servers have different comment length limits.
Please make sure that all involved servers have their
'CommentLimit' tag set to the same value in the 'db.conf'
file and their repository databases have been modified
accordingly.

[cidico]

Wow!!

 

Thanks, Códice!!

 

You're guys are awesome!!