From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:02:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split sample update hook into post-receive hook
Message-ID: <20070308100237.GF30289@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0703080157n413de6f6q35ae24e2620df91d@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> The proprietary OS' will have the problem, though. And far sooner
> than 1300 refs (w2k has only 32767 bytes for command line).
> Besides, don't overestimate peoples readiness to be careful
> about reference names. I would expect reference names over
> 100 bytes in length to happen regularly (generated from file names
> appended with a timestamp, for example).

Cygwin's lifted that argument handling to be unlimited.  But yes,
the point holds, not all OSen will do well with long ref names
and a lot of refs (such as in an initial push of a very verbosely
named project).
 
> Maybe provide this hooks with simply formatted list on stdin? I.e.
> 
> <old-ref> <new-ref> <ref-name> LF

Yea, exactly what I was thinking.  Easily read on stdin using 'read'
in shell, or in Perl, or, in C, or in ...  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.