| commit | 2d2cd7a2f7139e3aee62044765ad33b0021760a8 | |
| author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | |
| Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200) | ||
| committer | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | |
| Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:09:31 +0000 (12 13:09 +0200) | ||
| tree | 5b15235ebde24d21429728591c612726dc842a9f | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | 2397cec9e6ac278ac2e8e30c4fa42460fdf74328 | commitdiff |
gitk: work around ridiculous command line restriction 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).
This fixes msysGit issue 387.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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).
This fixes msysGit issue 387.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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