On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:58:33AM +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > IOWs, the protocol *is* atomic, and this patch does make things > slightly more brittle. Perhaps require an option to be set before we > do this? I started writing a patch to let the user specify the limit, but it was just too ugly. What user knows the right limit? We are probably better off just setting the limit at something high and reasonable (like 64K -- it would be nice to get feedback from Markus on what platform he is using and what is a reasonable value), or just using a tempfile with xargs, which should figure out the correct value. -Peff - 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