# gitk says "file name too long"

2 messages from 2010-02-25 to 2013-03-21. Participants: Sebastian Schuberth, steven Loker.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22820

## Sebastian Schuberth, 2010-02-25 13:44

Subject: gitk says "file name too long"
Message-ID: <hm5usf$6ba$1@dough.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/hm5usf%246ba%241%40dough.gmane.org

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Hi,

I'm having the same problem in msysGit as already described here in the 
msysGit issue tracker:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=387

The problem seems to be that for some reason gitk is launching "git 
rev-list" (in $cmd) with a ton of IDs (in $ids), resulting in a command 
line that is too long. So the error message does not come from gitk / 
tk, but from git rev-list. I'm getting the same error (argument list too 
long) if I manually enter the command at the shell.

Is anyone else experiencing this and has a solution? Is the problem 
rather that the list of IDs is wrong (and thus too long), or do we need 
to find a work-around to pass auch long command lines to git rev-list?

Thanks.

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Sebastian Schuberth

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## steven Loker, 2013-03-21 06:39

Subject: Re: gitk says "file name too long"
Message-ID: <1363847955088-7580237.post@n2.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1363847955088-7580237.post%40n2.nabble.com
In-Reply-To: <hm5usf$6ba$1@dough.gmane.org>

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Use LongPathTool. If u had problem with files i suggest this software. 

http://LongPathTool.com



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