Pat Thoyts writes: > Tcl strings can eat all your memory. However, there is a limit to the > size of the command line argument passed to CreateProcess. MSDN says > of the lpCommandLine parameter: > "The maximum length of this string is 32K characters." > A solution for this case will be to use a pipe to read the responses > instead of having it all returned to the caller. > The following patch might be sufficient: I knew about the 32k command-line limit under windows, but I don't see how that applies in this case unless it is $revs that is too long (and if that is the case then I don't see how your patch helps). Is there also a 32k limit on the size of data returned by a command executed with [exec]? Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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