From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:07:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: be cleverer with rebased upstream branches
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinsvfXjVhJfLDeZ+g4skev6bBmJgByyxXW7eO39@mail.gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

>> +    oldremoteref=$(git merge-base $curr_branch $oldremoteref $(git
>> rev-list -g $remoteref 2>/dev/null))

Yuck; the entire set of commits that appear in reflog can be quite long.
What will happen when this exceeds the shell command line limit or when
you get E2BIG from execve(2)?