Work around the command line limit on Windows
commitd4d39902f32742cff6098d04ad84cb5fca60db34
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200)
committerPat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:34:48 +0000 (29 09:34 +0000)
tree0d6aadf11248c9668a9ca627db55946ff9759cab
parent3c63722ec15d07c4707483e701ad4d7561da7526
Work around the command line limit on Windows

On Windows, there are dramatic problems when a command line grows
beyond PATH_MAX, which is restricted to 8191 characters on XP and
later (according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830473).

Work around this by just cutting off the command line at that length
(actually, at a space boundary) in the hope that only negative
refs are chucked: gitk will then do unnecessary work, but that is
still better than flashing the gitk window and exiting with exit
status 5 (which no Windows user is able to make sense of).

The first fix caused Tcl to fail to compile the regexp, see msysGit issue
427. Here is another fix without using regexp, and using a more relaxed
command line length limit to fix the original issue 387.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
gitk-git/gitk