From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:45:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags
Message-ID: <20120319024551.GC10426@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DsuQNEwLb_vSPTN_Zrh6o9OK3V_R3xZDMQsFCaOafUXw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:43:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > However, I think you would need to teach the run-command API how to open
> > extra pipes to a child beyond stdout/stdin/stderr.
> 
> That might be a problem on Windows. I think Windows exec* has special
> support for stdin/stdout/stderr and only those.

Then your sneak-it-across-stdin trick is probably the best bet. It's a
little ugly, but this is for stateless-rpc, so it's not like anything
outside of git is going to actually see this.

-Peff