[SCM-784] git add may fail on *nix with *lots and lots* of files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.2
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-gitexe
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephen Connolly
• Created: 11/Nov/14 10:49
• Updated: 16/Mar/18 22:39
• Resolved: 16/Mar/18 22:39

Description

SCM-697 has friends in Unix land too

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19354870/bash-command-line-and-input-limit

So while the limit for most unixes is a lot larger than 8k, e.g. my mac is 256k and a lot of linux machines have a 128k limit

Aside:

$ expr `getconf ARG_MAX` - `env|wc -c` - `env|wc -l` * 4 - 2048

will tell you your limit

There still is a limit, thus it would make sense to batch the add operation based on the size of the command line. The batch size would ideally be configurable with a default of 120k characters for unix and 8k characters for windows so that windows can get some batching benefits too