Work around the command line limit on Windows
commit1f55fc30af327168b66ad642447b394e9d7ddef5
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200)
committerJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:23:19 +0000 (1 16:23 -0600)
treeff2477891cf5113b0e089f3ae59ffe9fac115759
parent8ea6546f426d4b0390df70553b0246c818da6962
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