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Re: [PATCH] Split sample update hook into post-receive hook

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Mar 8, 2007, 08:33 UTC
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<20070308083317.GB30289@spearce.org>
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<81b0412b0703080026v6f3990c3x2cefca661b64e00d@mail.gmail.com>
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/8/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> >+# Called by git-receive-pack with arguments:
> >+#    (refname sha1-old sha1-new)+
> > #
> 
> What do you do if this breaks because of too many refs passed?
Die a horrible horrible death?

That's certainly a problem in receive-pack. It should (somehow) break long invocations up, much like what xargs winds up doing. Problem is that limit is OS dependent... so uh, yea...

-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Split sample update hook into post-receive hookShawn O. Pearce, Mar 8, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenMar 8, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceMar 8, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceMar 8, 2007
  6. Sergey VlasovMar 8, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceMar 10, 2007
  8. Alex RiesenMar 8, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceMar 8, 2007
  10. Alex RiesenMar 8, 2007

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