From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:34:01 GMT
Subject: Re: "Argument list too long" in git remote update (Was: Git and GCC)
Message-ID: <20071218013401.A1716@edi-view2.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712171455220.21557@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:01:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > With git version 1.5.3.6 on Mac OS X, this results in:
> > potomac%:~/gcc%git remote update
> > Updating gcc.gnu.org
> > /opt/git/bin/git-fetch: line 220: /opt/git/bin/git: Argument list too long

> But maybe there is some way to raise the argument size limit on OS X.

Well the certification for Leopard claims it can be up to 256k.

I don't know about Tiger or earlier,  but ARG_MAX on my 10.4
box is also (256 * 1024).

So - how much do people want?  Or maybe there is some sort limit in play here?

DF