Np: Can't open github release page when release note is too long

[fisker]

Description

This is a limitation on github urls, seems about 8195 (including https://github.com)

here

Expected behavior

I think maybe we can copy the body to clipboard and open a url like this

https://github.com/sindresorhus/np/releases/new?body=<!--%20paste%20your%20release%20nodes%20here%20-->

Maybe new-github-release-url should also throw an error.

[sindresorhus]

Can you submit a bug report to GitHub? They should really support longer URLs than that.

[fisker]

I don't think that solves the problem, even if github supports longer urls, the url length can still reach the browser's url length limits. In chrome about 2MB

[sindresorhus]

Yes, but you're much less likely to hit the browser URL limit. So it's still worth sending a bug report.

[fisker]

OK, I'll let you know when they reply.

[sindresorhus]

That means about a million characters. If your release notes are that long, this is the least of your problems 😝

[papb]

Hmm, something similar just happened to me, but instead of opening this 414 Request-URI Too Large error, nothing was opened at all... The release had 110 commits since the previous one, so I wonder if that enough blew the size up.

By the way, of those, almost 100 were commits by Renovate bot, which I redacted from the release notes while doing it manually, since np didn't work. I was expecting to get the generated release and just delete those commits from it.

[aureooms]