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Re: git-cvsexportcommit fails for huge commits

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 15, 2007, 10:09 UTC
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<20071215100950.GB1692@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<200712141447.05039.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:47:03PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> > So here is a cleaned up patch. It bumps the maximum size to 64kB, adds
> > scalar support (nobody uses it, but it makes sense for the interface to
> > match that of safe_pipe_capture -- I am even tempted to just replace
> > safe_pipe_capture entirely and convert the few other callers), and
> > cleans up the unused safe_pipe_capture_blob.
> 
> Wouldn't using the POSIX::ARG_MAX constant work?

It does seem to produce sensible results. Does it work reasonably on Windows?

Note that it would also need to be ARG_MAX - slop, where slop accounts for the environment (which maybe we can get accurately by counting the keys and values of %ENV, adding NUL terminators?).

-Peff
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  1. Markus KlinikDec 11, 2007
  2. Jeff KingDec 12, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2007
  4. Jeff KingDec 12, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2007
  6. Jeff KingDec 14, 2007
  7. Jeff KingDec 14, 2007
  8. Robin RosenbergDec 14, 2007
  9. Jeff KingDec 15, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsDec 12, 2007
  11. Jeff KingDec 12, 2007
  12. Martin LanghoffDec 12, 2007
  13. Jeff KingDec 13, 2007
  14. Markus KlinikDec 13, 2007
  15. Jeff KingDec 13, 2007

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