Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The proprietary OS' will have the problem, though. And far sooner > than 1300 refs (w2k has only 32767 bytes for command line). > Besides, don't overestimate peoples readiness to be careful > about reference names. I would expect reference names over > 100 bytes in length to happen regularly (generated from file names > appended with a timestamp, for example). Cygwin's lifted that argument handling to be unlimited. But yes, the point holds, not all OSen will do well with long ref names and a lot of refs (such as in an initial push of a very verbosely named project). > Maybe provide this hooks with simply formatted list on stdin? I.e. > > <old-ref> <new-ref> <ref-name> LF Yea, exactly what I was thinking. Easily read on stdin using 'read' in shell, or in Perl, or, in C, or in ... ;-) -- Shawn. - 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