Buildforge project tag limit
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Hello,
The BF_TAG variable is stored as a BYTE variable. Meaning is can use whole numbers from 0 to 255 and a byte is 8 bits.
This should be plenty large. For example. The BF_TAG for the auto-increment BF_Build number. In order for the number to get that large. You would have to have thousands of builds of the same job. In Build Forge, this is not a good idea. That would mean you have not purged your jobs. Meaning all the data from the step logs is contained within the database.
Even if you purge only partial amounts of the information via a purge class. You should never exceed a number 8 bits in length before completely removing the project.
Each bit that is on as you can see below is a set character amount. So bit 8 is 128, 7 is 64 etc. All the way down to 1. Exceeding this would be in the thousands and you should not worry about hitting the maximum
1111 1111 = 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 255
Does that answer your question?
Thanks!