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From: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
To: Tommy Wang <subscription@august8.net>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Default history simplification
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:55:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120095537.1909f6b6@perceptron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae09c2a40911191530y626dd035q90de0212e0b4b6d8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Tommy Wang <subscription@august8.net> wrote:
> [...] I would love to simply use the rev-list built-in to
> do my work for me; but I fear that I may have much too many path
> limiters than the linux command-line can handle (which if I'm correct,
> can only take so many arguments).

On my system, "only so many arguments" means about two megabytes worth
of command line. On several operating systems, "getconf ARG_MAX" can
tell you the approximate limit (which I think includes the space for
environment variables).

I don't really have any comments about the other things you said.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19 23:30 Default history simplification Tommy Wang
2009-11-20  8:55 ` Jan Krüger [this message]
2009-11-21  6:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-20 14:41 ` Jeff King

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