Re: VC and too long command lines

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> 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.

No, the problem here is that VC should encourage you (and better
support) to mark directories rather than marking each and every file.

Splitting the command into several commands is right since a commit is
a single atomic entity which in general can't be split.


        Stefan