From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC and too long command lines Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:23 -0700 Message-ID: <4E2834B7.2090300@gmail.com> References: <4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFDA99D44746931561E0F8B9C" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311257806 26866 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2011 14:16:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 16:16:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qju3L-0006P6-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qju3K-0004db-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qju3D-0004Js-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qju3A-0008Vw-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]:63254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qju39-0008Vh-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so1711236pzk.8 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type; bh=UerXV1QFXjyJvsuZWMactMGmlBMAYH6vxuKsSG1ZuqM=; b=UvSaLoM1O/mEGj2A0GdsSq9hOJ91mDlnsGkqnhDmHqhsyZTNFW+w6476tcyNxXcKbU ZdQS420qksHPguLx0V62gymGrGKuY/Qz6rzxBN76wDCKCX7dHVtLyHb4VnzP4p0DClvL wkQpA/dyOiXUzGxPNmtT4tGPgtQMHFdDM9798= Original-Received: by 10.142.125.8 with SMTP id x8mr148884wfc.14.1311257786728; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [0.0.0.0] (c-24-18-179-193.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [24.18.179.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l19sm679494wfk.23.2011.07.21.07.16.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4E2821C0.5090409@dogan.se> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 OpenPGP: id=5035D15B X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.49 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142180 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFDA99D44746931561E0F8B9C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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). >=20 > What should Emacs do when this happens? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --------------enigFDA99D44746931561E0F8B9C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4oNLcACgkQ17c2LVA10VumfgCcCnwMcS2f+NNREsMZxrsm8H92 LoYAn0IanUaY+MS3Xza0adr68hB85GqP =bDkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFDA99D44746931561E0F8B9C--