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Bug report: git add . -p "Argument list too long"

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DKDieter Komendera <dieter@komendera.com>
Date
Mar 31, 2014, 21:04 UTC
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<2893758C-2196-4A0F-8FD7-69C13B1EDBA4@komendera.com>
Hi there,
since a while when I want to stage diffs in one of my big repos with "git add . -p” I get this error:

Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 180. Died at /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 180.

Mac OS X 10.9.2 git 1.9.1 (installed via homebrew)

I’ve also tried the latest versions of the 1.7 and 1.8 branches which also yielded the same error in that repo. git add . -p works fine in other (smaller) repos. Unfortunately I’m not able to share this private repo.

I found this rather old posting in the mailing list archive, unfortunately the link to the "quick and easy fix” looks dead: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142863/match=argument+list+too+long+git+add

Anybody can help?

Thanks, Dieter

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  1. Dieter KomenderaMar 31, 2014
  2. Philip OakleyMar 31, 2014

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