Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:01:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > With git version 1.5.3.6 on Mac OS X, this results in:
> > > potomac%:~/gcc%git remote update
> > > Updating gcc.gnu.org
> > > /opt/git/bin/git-fetch: line 220: /opt/git/bin/git: Argument list too long
>
> > But maybe there is some way to raise the argument size limit on OS X.
>
> Well the certification for Leopard claims it can be up to 256k.
>
> I don't know about Tiger or earlier, but ARG_MAX on my 10.4
> box is also (256 * 1024).
>
> So - how much do people want? Or maybe there is some sort limit in play here?
I heard there's like 1000 branches in that GCC repository, not
counting tags.
Each branch name is at least 12 bytes or so ("refs/heads/..").
It adds up.
It should be fixed in latest git (1.5.4-rc0) as that uses the new
builtin-fetch implementation, which passes the lists around in
memory rather than on the command line. Much faster, and doesn't
suffer from argument/environment limits.
--
Shawn.
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