When there are many branches, we can overflow the maximum number of arguments to exec*(). Signed-off-by: Dave Zarzycki <zarzycki@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-filter-branch.sh | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index 962a93b..a93e582 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ else remap_to_ancestor=t fi -rev_args=$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@") +rev_parse_args="$@" case "$filter_subdir" in "") @@ -286,8 +286,9 @@ case "$filter_subdir" in ;; esac -git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \ - --parents --simplify-merges $rev_args "$@" > ../revs || +git rev-parse --revs-only "$rev_parse_args" | git rev-list --stdin \ + --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \ + --parents --simplify-merges "$@" > ../revs || die "Could not get the commits" commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ") -- 1.7.6.235.gfdb98 -- 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