Gitk: "argument list too long"

Gitk: "argument list too long"

[Nicolas Pennequin (npennequ)]

Hi,

I¹m having some trouble with gitk on Mac using a very large repository
(chromium/src).
I¹m using git version 2.2.1 from Homebrew.

The error details are the following:

couldn't execute "git": argument list too long
couldn't execute "git": argument list too long
    while executing
"open [concat $cmd $ids] r"
    (procedure "getallcommits" line 47)
    invoked from within
"getallcommits"
    (procedure "readcache" line 80)
    invoked from within
"readcache file10"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval $script"
    (procedure "dorunq" line 11)
    invoked from within
"dorunq"
    ("after" script)


Regards,
Nicolas

gitk: "argument list too long"

[Chris Cowan]

I've recently had an issue where running "gitk --all" has stopped
working on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with
all of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git
log: couldn't execute "git": argument list too long'.

I'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew.
"getconf ARG_MAX" tells me that the maximum argument length is 262144
bytes. "git tag|wc -l" tells me that there 5271 tags in the repo, and
more are added regularly. I think that's what set it over recently.
For now I've worked around the issue by running "gitk --branches"
instead.

I searched for other mentions of this issue, and found this issue from
I think this same mailing list:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg243731.html . Trying to run "gitk
--all" in the chromium git repo (available at
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git) gives me the same
issue too always as Nicolas reported.