From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVS update fails
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:06:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bqd0ma49.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1INd5R-0001PX-Ff@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 21 Aug 2007 19\:24\:37 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > Running cvs update ...
> > error in process sentinel: cvs-update-header: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big"
> > error in process sentinel: Invalid regexp: "Regular expression too big"
>
> Is it constructing a regexp from all the file names? If so,
> that would indirectly put a limit on the number of file names.
> It would be good to rewrite it to use another method.
Using a hash table would seem to be both more efficient and safe
against size.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 9:53 CVS update fails Stephen Berman
2007-08-21 13:59 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-21 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-21 19:12 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-21 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-21 23:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-22 5:06 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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