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Re: VC and too long command lines
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: VC and too long command lines |
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Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:23 -0700 |
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On 7/21/2011 5:55 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 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.
There is a third option, at least if you use Cygwin:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-at
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- 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, 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,
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