Re: raises hand for bite-sized issue #604

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 19:16, Greg Stein wrote:
> I guess it might be possible to write a tool that directly calls exec() so
> that you can avoid the shell's command line length, but that problem is
> still there.

In general, exec() is to blame, not the shell. However, the limits
involved are really pretty big.

> However, the simple fact remains that there are limits to the length of the
> command line. That limits the number of files/dirs that can be specified.
> Thus, having something like --file-list list-o-files.txt would be helpful.

I would think we should implement this after someone has a real live
problem with command-line length limits, not before. (Unless Windows
has a really short command-line length limit. But we should verify that
rather than just guessing.)

On the other hand... I don't see why Karl is so paranoid about parsing
the log message and letting people remove parts of the commit. It
doesn't feel like a rat's nest to me.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:58 2006