From 1661a37a46c42f54b2d16f895779d00903a5476b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike McCandless <mikemccand@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:20:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove unecessary assert: the write method below has a real
 'if' checking this, and custom readers and writers may not have this limit

---
 lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/OfflineSorter.java | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/OfflineSorter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/OfflineSorter.java
index 7c6ed8d0595..86bcdef9339 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/OfflineSorter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/OfflineSorter.java
@@ -608,7 +608,6 @@ public class OfflineSorter {
 
         int count = 0;
         while ((spare = iter.next()) != null) {
-          assert spare.length <= Short.MAX_VALUE;
           out.write(spare);
           count++;
         }