[PATCH] enable paths >260 for filelogs inside .hg on Windows (EXPERIMENTAL)

[Matt Nordhoff]

Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> Thanks for the tip!
> 
> You're right, the hasattr call can be replaced by specifying
> None as a default for getattr.
> 
> getattr raises AttributeError if no default is provided, so I
> think specifying None is needed in order to get to

Ah, sorry. I thought getattr() defaulted to None, not that it raised an
AttributeError. Oops.

>>> +               size = util.fstat(fp).st_size
> 
> when running on unix. Without the None, execution would go to
> 
>>>              size = 0
> 
> wouldn't it ?
> 
> However, if long path would have to be included in Mercurial, some
> refactoring would probably be needed anyway before mpm includes it.
> It was just the quickest thing I came up with during my quick-and-dirty
> experimenting.
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