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Bug report: git add . -p "Argument list too long"

Subject: Bug report: git add . -p "Argument list too long"

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2 messages between Mar 31, 2014 and Mar 31, 2014.

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Dieter Komendera· Mar 31, 2014, 21:04 UTC · lore
Hi there,
since a while when I want to stage diffs in one of my big repos with "git add . -p” I get this error:

Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 180. Died at /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 180.

Mac OS X 10.9.2 git 1.9.1 (installed via homebrew)

I’ve also tried the latest versions of the 1.7 and 1.8 branches which also yielded the same error in that repo. git add . -p works fine in other (smaller) repos. Unfortunately I’m not able to share this private repo.

I found this rather old posting in the mailing list archive, unfortunately the link to the "quick and easy fix” looks dead: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142863/match=argument+list+too+long+git+add

Anybody can help?

Thanks, Dieter

Philip Oakley· Mar 31, 2014, 21:38 UTC · re: Dieter Komendera · lore

Re: Bug report: git add . -p "Argument list too long"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dieter Komendera" <dieter@komendera.com>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:04 PM
Subject: Bug report: git add . -p "Argument list too long"
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> Hi there,
>
> since a while when I want to stage diffs in one of my big repos with 
> "git add . -p” I get this error:
>
> Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at 
> /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 
> 180.
> Died at 
> /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.1/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive line 
> 180.
>
> Mac OS X 10.9.2
> git 1.9.1 (installed via homebrew)
>
> I’ve also tried the latest versions of the 1.7 and 1.8 branches which 
> also yielded the same error in that repo.
> git add . -p works fine in other (smaller) repos. Unfortunately I’m 
> not able to share this private repo.
>
> I found this rather old posting in the mailing list archive, 
> unfortunately the link to the "quick and easy fix” looks dead:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142863/match=argument+list+too+long+git+add
>
> Anybody can help?
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter
>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/136157 maybe?

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