From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: "Argument list too long" in git remote update (Was: Git and GCC) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:34:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20071218013401.A1716@edi-view2.cisco.com> References: <4aca3dc20712051108s216d3331t8061ef45b9aa324a@mail.gmail.com> <2007-12-05-21-23-14+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <1196891451.10408.54.camel@brick> <1196897840.10408.57.camel@brick> <38a0d8450712130640p1b5d74d6nfa124ad0b0110d64@mail.gmail.com> <1197572755.898.15.camel@brick> <37BDCA73-4318-4BC8-9CCE-1DA30E4A09FC@adacore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Geert Bosch , Harvey Harrison , Git Mailing List To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 18 02:45:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J4RWe-00028J-7v for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:45:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936462AbXLRBoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:44:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936957AbXLRBoL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:44:11 -0500 Received: from ams-iport-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.140]:46934 "EHLO ams-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937216AbXLRBoJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:44:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 604 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:44:08 EST X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,178,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="1142697" Received: from ams-dkim-1.cisco.com ([144.254.224.138]) by ams-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2007 02:34:03 +0100 Received: from ams-core-1.cisco.com (ams-core-1.cisco.com [144.254.224.150]) by ams-dkim-1.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lBI1Y2Nl021888; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:34:02 +0100 Received: from edi-view2.cisco.com (edi-view2.cisco.com [64.103.71.156]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id lBI1Y1AC012522; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:34:02 GMT Received: (dfawcus@localhost) by edi-view2.cisco.com (8.11.2/CISCO.WS.1.2) id lBI1Y1703444; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:34:01 GMT X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@linux-foundation.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:01:25PM -0800 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=594; t=1197941642; x=1198805642; c=relaxed/simple; s=amsdkim1002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=dfawcus@cisco.com; z=From:=20Derek=20Fawcus=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20=22Argument=20list=20too=20long=22=20in =20git=20remote=20update=20(Was=3A=20Git=20and=20GCC) |Sender:=20; bh=XJICoSXbF/82qHmNnriwkudkLnehrg36Lt+8qgZsD98=; b=R/6VGywsYyp4rp6wuUSHFNZyHKJw4neQ82QjYnsQlfpNzsT9rd/vho7S5R yNghSv5SAMSfEaQy+FVh76cscGd4C9tgIu5/nAK2IroaIbNWD8+3ExqzZDaJ dAMMnpjexa; Authentication-Results: ams-dkim-1; header.From=dfawcus@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/amsdkim1002 verified; ); Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? DF