From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:37:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Default history simplification
Message-ID: <7v8we0s7sc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091120095537.1909f6b6@perceptron>

Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> writes:

> 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.

Good point.

The command line limitation, even if it is very small, shouldn't be a
problem if Tommy is interested in recreating exactly what rev-list does.

If his tool that drives rev-list or log from the command line cannot work
because his request overflows the command line, the same request will
overflow the command line for rev-list or log, so they wouldn't work
either.

For a more serious answer, see the other thread ;-).