Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Update russian translation

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

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But now, when I really think about the change, it looks useless.
What has the _number_ of files has to do with the files you actually
have to handle? As the sorting of the file list cannot be changed (and
it wouldn't be a big help anyway), you have no chance to get to your
file if it happens to be past the limit!

Good point.  I suspect the problem wasn't so much with Tcl doing the
list processing as it was with Tk actually creating the underlying
icons and stuff for each file name.  But with the list clipped,
you are right, you are basically SOL.  You can't do much beyond
dropping back to the CLI and using the CLI tools.

IMHO, if we aren't going to handle 20k file names, we should at least
punt and tell the user we aren't going to handle 20k file names,
rather than just play Outlook wannabe and lockup the entire UI until
the user gets bored and kill -9's us.  So this patch is better than
nothing, it at least lets the user know we have given up on them.

A warning would be good, but this gives users more information. In my 
case, I only wanted to see a few files, but the rest were from a 
directory that should have been in .gitignore. If I had seen the 
filenames, I would have known which directory was the culprit. This way, 
you don't need to drop to the command line to fix the problem.

-Dan