bug#19406: 25.0.50; `vc-dir' is (even more) broken in Subversion for directories with many files

bug#19406: 25.0.50; `vc-dir' is (even more) broken in Subversion for directories with many files

[Richard Copley]

After fixing bug #19405 by applying the patch given in that bug
report, the `vc-dir' command works under Subversion, but only for
small directories.
For directories with a large number of files, the message “Spawning
child process: exec format error” is displayed and the vc-dir buffer
displays the “[waiting…]” text indefinitely.


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bug#19406: 25.0.50; `vc-dir' is (even more) broken in Subversion for directories with many files

[Dmitry Gutov]

Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:

> After fixing bug #19405 by applying the patch given in that bug
> report, the `vc-dir' command works under Subversion, but only for
> small directories.
> For directories with a large number of files, the message “Spawning
> child process: exec format error” is displayed and the vc-dir buffer
> displays the “[waiting…]” text indefinitely.

This seems to be the same as bug 19387. Should also be fixed now.

bug#19406: 25.0.50; `vc-dir' is (even more) broken in Subversion for directories with many files

[Richard Copley]

> This seems to be the same as bug 19387. Should also be fixed now.

Confirmed, thanks.