From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:04:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in a repository
Message-ID: <81b0412b0911030204v46adf54gb9ed65e78ce2b6df@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vlzvjtg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>      if {$revs eq {}} {
>>         set revs HEAD
>> +    } elseif {$revs eq "--all"} {
>> +        return $revs
>>      }
>
> That looks like an ugly hack (aka sweeping the issue under the rug).
>

And it is a race condition. By the time git log has got --all list of references
it may look completely different to what gitk has.