From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits
Message-ID: <20071212161701.GA18930@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712120753120.25032@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:02:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> >  
> > +sub xargs_safe_pipe_capture {
> > +	my $MAX_ARG_LENGTH = 1024;
> 
> Well, that's a bit extreme. Make it 16kB or something. Anything should be 
> able to handle that.

Obviously it should be tweaked, and I just chose an absurdly low value.
However, "xargs --show-limit" claims that the POSIX minimum is 2048,
less the size of the environment. I have no idea what the original
problem reporter's platform is, or what sort of environment size is sane
there.

-Peff