[PATCH] Re: Gitk --all error when there are more than 797 refs in a repository

Pat Thoyts writes:

Tcl strings can eat all your memory. However, there is a limit to the
size of the command line argument passed to CreateProcess.  MSDN says
of the lpCommandLine parameter:
  "The maximum length of this string is 32K characters."
A solution for this case will be to use a pipe to read the responses
instead of having it all returned to the caller.
The following patch might be sufficient:

I knew about the 32k command-line limit under windows, but I don't see
how that applies in this case unless it is $revs that is too long (and
if that is the case then I don't see how your patch helps).  Is there
also a 32k limit on the size of data returned by a command executed
with [exec]?

Paul.