From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:18:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git rev-contains [Was: merge -s ffonly]
Message-ID: <48EC50C8.4000603@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20081007185815.GA10744@strlen.de>

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> +	if test -n "$(git rev-list $1..HEAD)"
> I already wrote similar tests and I wonder if this couldn't be done in a
> new builtin command more effectively.  Something like
> 
> 	git rev-contains HEAD "$1"
> 
> .  I expect it to be faster and maybe it prevents a command line
> overflow?!  (I remember something like 32000 chars max in a command, but
> I could not trigger that with bash.)
> 

On Linux (well, on my system anyways), it's 128K for arguments and
environment combined.

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