Re: [PATCH] git-mv is not able to handle big directories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 23, 2005, 06:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk6ez7u1y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7voe4b7uw7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> Two comments.
>
> (1) the argument limit is enforced by the operating system in
> ...
> (2) I wonder if we can detect this particular failure case and
> ...

(3) Even better, 'git-update-index -z --stdin'

	if (@changedfiles) {
            open my $oh, qw(|- git-update-index -z --stdin)
                    or die "oops";
            for (@changedfiles) {
                print $oh "$_\0";
	    }
	    close $oh;
	}

	JC "added too many features that myself cannot remember" Hamano