From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:41:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in a repository
Message-ID: <19184.2253.656355.506185@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0911030204v46adf54gb9ed65e78ce2b6df@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen writes:

> 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.

Yes, exactly.  Until git log understands --stdin, I think the only
real solution is to disable the view update optimization on windows.

Paul.