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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@strlen.de>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git rev-contains [Was: merge -s ffonly]
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:18:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EC50C8.4000603@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007185815.GA10744@strlen.de>

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> +	if test -n "$(git rev-list $1..HEAD)"
> I already wrote similar tests and I wonder if this couldn't be done in a
> new builtin command more effectively.  Something like
> 
> 	git rev-contains HEAD "$1"
> 
> .  I expect it to be faster and maybe it prevents a command line
> overflow?!  (I remember something like 32000 chars max in a command, but
> I could not trigger that with bash.)
> 

On Linux (well, on my system anyways), it's 128K for arguments and
environment combined.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-08  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06 23:56 merge -s ffonly Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-07 18:58 ` [RFC] git rev-contains [Was: merge -s ffonly] Uwe Kleine-König
2008-10-08  6:18   ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2008-10-08 14:30   ` Deskin Miller
2008-10-08 15:41     ` Uwe Kleine-König

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