Re: [PATCH v6] subtree: fix split processing with multiple subtrees present

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 12, 2023, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzfyfoy2w.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD19phFz54d8fDM=MBRMSD9Rz4R0_463KgptN8eeFs7MnQ@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

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>> > $ git subtree split --prefix=apollo-ios-codegen --squash --rejoin
>> > Merge made by the 'ort' strategy.
>> > e274aed3ba6d0659fb4cc014587cf31c1e8df7f4
>>
>> Looking into this some it looks like it could be a bash config
>> difference? My machine always runs it all the way through vs
>> failing for recursion depth. Although that would also be an issue
>> which is solved by this fix.
>
> I use Ubuntu where /bin/sh is dash so my current guess is that dash
> might have a smaller recursion limit than bash.

That sounds quite bad. Does it have to be recursive (iow, if we can rewrite the logic to be iterative instead, that would be a much better way to fix the issue)?