Work around the command line limit on Windows
commit68ad44fc5767cd480e9e3e1fe5fabf021c4c74a5
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200)
committerJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:05:48 +0000 (24 10:05 -0500)
tree92e5eab7c9fe35d4c5a5cd0bec5da6f6fa305c0c
parentc72f009b9b7c223b49900a39f0e2a7a46140e833
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