>
> >     I have appended a patch which should fix the problem. Could you,
> >     please, (let) test?
> >
> > Great, I'll make them test & report (or test myself if needed).
>
> FTR, this morning I've made a test with a cloned Linux kernel git repo
> (66473 files). I've accessed the directory via "/ssh::".
> (shell-command-to-string "git ls-files -zco --exclude-standard")
> returned in a few seconds, with a line of 2479486 bytes.
>

Is that with or without the patch? Could you reproduce the problem without
the patch?



> I've committed the patch meanwhile. Tramp 2.4.3, scheduled for end of
> the year, will contain it.
>
> In case there's a problem, you still have some days to report :-)
>

Great, thanks!

Kind regards,
Philippe