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Re: git-diff opens too many files?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 20, 2006, 15:20 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> I got this error in a quite big (in files) repository:
> error: open("vnexpress.net/Suc-khoe/2001/04/3B9AF976"): Too many open
> files in system
> fatal: cannot hash vnexpress.net/Suc-khoe/2001/04/3B9AF976
> 
> The repository contained about 67.000 files and probably all were modified.
> git version 1.4.4.rc1.g2bba

What was the command line? "git diff" really is a wrapper around different programs...

Ciao, Dscho

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