From: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC and too long command lines
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2834B7.2090300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 12:55 VC and too long command lines Deniz Dogan
2011-07-21 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-21 14:16 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-21 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-22 20:37 ` Nix
2011-07-23 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-23 10:36 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-23 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-23 17:18 ` Nix
2011-07-21 14:16 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2011-08-02 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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