# Git bash limited to 64 windows

2 messages from 2020-11-12 to 2020-11-13. Participants: email nans, brian m. carlson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/54629

## email nans, 2020-11-12 16:42

Subject: Git bash limited to 64 windows
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Hello,
I wanted to know if this is normal and wanted, if git bash is limited
to 64 windows at the same time.
In theory this is not a problem, it is normal that there are limits
but why there are no explicit error messages.

For example, when I use git bash in Visual Code Studio, it produces
output error '256' but no message like 'Too many Git bash at one
time'.
If we do it from a terminal, we get no message.

From a certain point of view, we can say that it is normal if there is
no error because we could say 'who runs 64 git bash and does not
realize it?'.But in some cases, for example in Visual Code Studio,
there is only a small number that shows how many git bashs are
running.

Here is Visual Code's response to this problem:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/109982

If you want to give it a try, here's a command that may come in handy:

for((i=1;i<=40;i++)); do start ./git-bash.exe; done

Thanks for taking the time to read
n4n5

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## brian m. carlson, 2020-11-13 00:08

Subject: Re: Git bash limited to 64 windows
Message-ID: <20201113000858.GK6252@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20201113000858.GK6252%40camp.crustytoothpaste.net
In-Reply-To: <CALjz=4x=8dewN_Dx5jH+9M9Wt+g2cvJkxsx8E+a6QGxt1cAHZA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2020-11-12 at 16:42:20, email nans wrote:
> Hello,

Hey,

> I wanted to know if this is normal and wanted, if git bash is limited
> to 64 windows at the same time.
> In theory this is not a problem, it is normal that there are limits
> but why there are no explicit error messages.
> 
> For example, when I use git bash in Visual Code Studio, it produces
> output error '256' but no message like 'Too many Git bash at one
> time'.
> If we do it from a terminal, we get no message.

This is probably better addressed to the Git for Windows issue tracker.
Git Bash is shipped as part of the Git for Windows project and isn't a
part of core Git.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US

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