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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	"Murphy, John" <john.murphy@bankofamerica.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in  a repository
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:04:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0911030204v46adf54gb9ed65e78ce2b6df@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1vlzvjtg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>      if {$revs eq {}} {
>>         set revs HEAD
>> +    } elseif {$revs eq "--all"} {
>> +        return $revs
>>      }
>
> That looks like an ugly hack (aka sweeping the issue under the rug).
>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 19:07 Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in a repository Murphy, John
2009-09-18 14:06 ` [PATCH] " Pat Thoyts
2009-09-18 15:16   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-19  0:07   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-21 14:02     ` Murphy, John
2009-09-21 14:09       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-21 14:11         ` Murphy, John
2009-09-21 15:59           ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-21 23:56             ` Pat Thoyts
2009-09-22  1:23               ` Murphy, John
2009-09-22  1:39               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-22  1:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-22 22:48                   ` Pat Thoyts
2009-11-03 10:04                 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2009-11-03 10:41                   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-22 23:30               ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-23  0:02                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-03  9:40                   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-11-03 14:59                     ` Junio C Hamano

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