From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: VC and too long command lines
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:55:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se> (raw)
Recently I came across a problem when using VC in Emacs. I had just
added a whole bunch of files to my Bazaar repository and wanted to
commit them all. I chose to mark them all in vc-dir and then tried to
commit them.
However...
File error: "Spawning child process", "exec format error"
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.
Deniz
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 12:55 Deniz Dogan [this message]
2011-07-21 14:12 ` VC and too long command lines 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
2011-08-02 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se \
--to=deniz@dogan.se \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.