From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Schuberth Subject: gitk says "file name too long" Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:41 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 25 14:45:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nke1d-0003lP-9G for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:45:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932553Ab0BYNpA (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:45:00 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47285 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932508Ab0BYNo7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:44:59 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nke1R-0003hG-SZ for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:57 +0100 Received: from berry.zib.de ([130.73.68.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:57 +0100 Received: from sschuberth by berry.zib.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: berry.zib.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm having the same problem in msysGit as already described here in the msysGit issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=387 The problem seems to be that for some reason gitk is launching "git rev-list" (in $cmd) with a ton of IDs (in $ids), resulting in a command line that is too long. So the error message does not come from gitk / tk, but from git rev-list. I'm getting the same error (argument list too long) if I manually enter the command at the shell. Is anyone else experiencing this and has a solution? Is the problem rather that the list of IDs is wrong (and thus too long), or do we need to find a work-around to pass auch long command lines to git rev-list? Thanks. -- Sebastian Schuberth