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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in 
	a repository
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:41:17 +1100
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
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Alex Riesen writes:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wro=
te:
> > Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0if {$revs eq {}} {
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 set revs HEAD
> >> + =A0 =A0} elseif {$revs eq "--all"} {
> >> + =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0return $revs
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0}
> >
> > That looks like an ugly hack (aka sweeping the issue under the rug)=
=2E
> >
>=20
> And it is a race condition. By the time git log has got --all list of=
 references
> it may look completely different to what gitk has.

Yes, exactly.  Until git log understands --stdin, I think the only
real solution is to disable the view update optimization on windows.

Paul.