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Re: Default history simplification

From
Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date
Nov 20, 2009, 08:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20091120095537.1909f6b6@perceptron>
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Hi,
Tommy Wang <subscription@august8.net> wrote:
> [...] I would love to simply use the rev-list built-in to
> do my work for me; but I fear that I may have much too many path
> limiters than the linux command-line can handle (which if I'm correct,
> can only take so many arguments).

On my system, "only so many arguments" means about two megabytes worth of command line. On several operating systems, "getconf ARG_MAX" can tell you the approximate limit (which I think includes the space for environment variables).

I don't really have any comments about the other things you said.
Jan
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  1. Tommy WangNov 19, 2009
  2. Jan KrügerNov 20, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 21, 2009
  4. Jeff KingNov 20, 2009

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