[MSCMPUB-18] publish-scm can fail with many files on linux

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Labels: close-pending
• Environment: Fedora 19+ (and certainly many of linux distro)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charlie Mordant
• Created: 21/Nov/14 15:49
• Updated: 18/Mar/22 20:06
• Resolved: 22/Dec/20 13:54

Description

Hi,

I have a pretty complete site to publish to a git repository.
I'm unable to publish it because linux limits command arguments to ARG_MAX kernel argument (unmodifiable): http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38955/argument-list-too-long-for-ls

And for sure, the command is veeeeeery long (more than two or three Jenkins console pages).

This bug is at least blocker for my concern.

The exact error:
The error: Cannot run program "/bin/sh" (in directory "/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/OsgiliathEF-Site-Deploy/workspace/target/scmpublish-checkout"): error=7, Liste d'arguments trop longue

An alternative could be either to pass a shell file containing arguments, either simply automate this task (what I'm doing now):

• edit .gitignore and unignore target/staging directory
• git add target/staging && git commit -m "Initial dist subtree commit"
• git subtree push --prefix target/staging origin gh-pages
• rollback and delete last revision

There are maybe best alternatives such as using xargs or make scalable equivalents of the command:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Argument-list-too-long

Best regards
Charlie

Issue Links

• causes: SLING-11217 Website publish job fails to run after adding the Sling 12 java docs
• is duplicated by: MSCMPUB-20 Can build too-long command lines on MacOSX and fail
• is related to: MSCMPUB-20 Can build too-long command lines on MacOSX and fail