From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:50:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-checkout-index to read filenames from stdin.
Message-ID: <20060301155053.GC1010@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060301024333.GB21186@spearce.org>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:43:33PM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>Since git-checkout-index is often used from scripts which may have a
>stream of filenames they wish to checkout it is more convenient to use
>--stdin than xargs.  On platforms where fork performance is currently
>sub-optimal and the length of a command line is limited (*cough* Cygwin
>*cough*)

AFAIK, the length of the command line for cygwin apps is very large --
if you're using recent versions of Cygwin.  I believe that it is longer
than the linux default.  We bypass the Windows mechanism for setting the
command line when a cygwin program starts a cygwin program.

For native Windows programs, the command line length is ~32K but I don't
think that git uses any native Windows programs, does it?

cgf