{"thread":{"id":"39635","subject":"gitk: \"argument list too long\"","startedAt":"2015-06-15T18:25:22Z","lastAt":"2015-09-12T20:04:28Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Chris Cowan","Dean Pulsifer"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"263874","messageId":"CAL_Ays8piaRHk6BxDOBLYbrxoN4wt3bLB0Pt8K6NydOBCi9dzw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"39635","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"gitk: \"argument list too long\"","fromName":"Chris Cowan","fromEmail":"cowan@streak.com","sentAt":"2015-06-15T18:25:22Z","receivedAt":"2015-06-15T18:25:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"cowan@streak.com","avatar":null},"body":"I've recently had an issue where running \"gitk --all\" has stopped\nworking on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with\nall of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git\nlog: couldn't execute \"git\": argument list too long'.\n\nI'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew.\n\"getconf ARG_MAX\" tells me that the maximum argument length is 262144\nbytes. \"git tag|wc -l\" tells me that there 5271 tags in the repo, and\nmore are added regularly. I think that's what set it over recently.\nFor now I've worked around the issue by running \"gitk --branches\"\ninstead.\n\nI searched for other mentions of this issue, and found this issue from\nI think this same mailing list:\nhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg243731.html . Trying to run \"gitk\n--all\" in the chromium git repo (available at\nhttps://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git) gives me the same\nissue too always as Nicolas reported.\n"},{"id":"269836","messageId":"loom.20150912T220334-422@post.gmane.org","threadId":"39635","inReplyTo":"CAL_Ays8piaRHk6BxDOBLYbrxoN4wt3bLB0Pt8K6NydOBCi9dzw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: gitk:","fromName":"Dean Pulsifer","fromEmail":"pulsifer@lexmark.com","sentAt":"2015-09-12T20:04:28Z","receivedAt":"2015-09-12T20:04:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pulsifer@lexmark.com","avatar":null},"body":"Chris Cowan <cowan <at> streak.com> writes:\n\n> \n> I've recently had an issue where running \"gitk --all\" has stopped\n> working on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with\n> all of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git\n> log: couldn't execute \"git\": argument list too long'.\n> \n> I'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew.\n\nI am also seeing this just as of this week.  Did you find a solution?\n"}]}