From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:31:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use stdin reflist passing in git-fetch.sh
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702121830270.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <11713297023551-git-send-email-julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>



On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:
>
> Use the new stdin reflist passing mechanism for the call to
> fetch--tool parse-reflist, allowing passing of more than ~128K
> of reflist data.

This pretty much seems to assume that "echo" is a shell built-in.

Otherwise, the

	echo "$1"

part will still fall afoul of any exec limits.

Maybe that's aperfectly fine assumption. It's certainly true for bash (and 
probably _any_ shells that do any built-ins at all - echo is pretty damn 
basic ;)

		Linus