# gitk: "argument list too long" 2 messages from 2015-06-15 to 2015-09-12. Participants: Chris Cowan, Dean Pulsifer. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39635 ## Chris Cowan, 2015-06-15 18:25 Subject: gitk: "argument list too long" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAL_Ays8piaRHk6BxDOBLYbrxoN4wt3bLB0Pt8K6NydOBCi9dzw%40mail.gmail.com ``` I've recently had an issue where running "gitk --all" has stopped working on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with all of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git log: couldn't execute "git": argument list too long'. I'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew. "getconf ARG_MAX" tells me that the maximum argument length is 262144 bytes. "git tag|wc -l" tells me that there 5271 tags in the repo, and more are added regularly. I think that's what set it over recently. For now I've worked around the issue by running "gitk --branches" instead. I searched for other mentions of this issue, and found this issue from I think this same mailing list: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg243731.html . Trying to run "gitk --all" in the chromium git repo (available at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git) gives me the same issue too always as Nicolas reported. ``` ## Dean Pulsifer, 2015-09-12 20:04 Subject: Re: gitk: Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20150912T220334-422%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Chris Cowan streak.com> writes: > > I've recently had an issue where running "gitk --all" has stopped > working on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with > all of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git > log: couldn't execute "git": argument list too long'. > > I'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew. I am also seeing this just as of this week. Did you find a solution? ```