Work around the command line limit on Windows
commit586978aa89ddb3a515a0c93830350facbf33e153
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200)
committerJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Fri, 11 May 2012 22:49:59 +0000 (11 17:49 -0500)
tree1222f23deb5762a964973532839edc375d33c6df
parent0b886c9f4d0ce0911f09f724103d684688f66890
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