Hi Paul, This fix allow gitk to be used on repositories with lots of tags. It bypasses git-rev-parse and passes its arguments to git-rev-list directly to avoid the command line length restrictions. Signed-Off-By: Jim Radford <radford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -Jim --- diff --git a/gitk b/gitk index 26fa79a..40672fb 100755 --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -17,19 +17,11 @@ proc gitdir {} { } proc parse_args {rargs} { - global parsed_args - - if {[catch { - set parse_args [concat --default HEAD $rargs] - set parsed_args [split [eval exec git-rev-parse $parse_args] "\n"] - }]} { - # if git-rev-parse failed for some reason... - if {$rargs == {}} { - set rargs HEAD - } - set parsed_args $rargs + if {$rargs == {}} { + return HEAD + } else { + return $rargs } - return $parsed_args } proc start_rev_list {rlargs} { - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html