Re: [PATCH] cvsimport-in-Perl: Limit the number of arguments to git-update-cache

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2005, 17:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0506301314280.1667@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0506301249550.1667@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> > A small fix to git-cvsimport-script:
> > 
> > Limit the number of arguments to git-update-cache.
> > (Limiting their length may make a bit more sense, but I'm lazy.)
> 
> Why not using:
> 
> 	write( "| xargs | git-update-cache --add --", @new)

That example should be:

	write( "| xargs git-update-cache --add --", @new)

of course.

Nicolas

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