Work around the command line limit on Windows
commitb54f0eaddbe7b629360370fc6d1ee6ea294469e1
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:22:33 +0000 (11 02:22 +0200)
committerPat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:33:49 +0000 (1 14:33 +0100)
treefa5f81cde49ed6a1f79cc85f579142a0d17ade7a
parentd08e5cd3ae1388dbdcb4487edff58600421c098f
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