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VC and too long command lines
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Deniz Dogan |
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VC and too long command lines |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:55:28 +0200 |
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Recently I came across a problem when using VC in Emacs. I had just
added a whole bunch of files to my Bazaar repository and wanted to
commit them all. I chose to mark them all in vc-dir and then tried to
commit them.
However...
File error: "Spawning child process", "exec format error"
Of course, the command line was simply too long (approximately 66,000
characters) for my operating system to handle (Windows 7 64-bit).
What should Emacs do when this happens?
I think the most appropriate thing would be to add some functionality
which determines the maximum command line length for the current system
and if the call exceeds that length, tell the user about it. Another
way would be to e.g. divide the commit into several smaller commits and
appending something along the lines of "(commit N of M)" to each commit
message.
What do you think? I think this is quite an important issue.
Deniz
- VC and too long command lines,
Deniz Dogan <=
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/21
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Deniz Dogan, 2011/07/21
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/21
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Nix, 2011/07/22
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/23
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/23
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/23
- Re: VC and too long command lines, Nix, 2011/07/23
Re: VC and too long command lines, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/21