[cvsnt] long command line

[Torsten Martinsen]

Tony Hoyle wrote:

>Torsten Martinsen wrote:
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>>This can happen e.g. when you Add a large number of files - in this case
>>you of course have to pass the individual filenames, not just the
>>directory.
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>Even that can be optimised.. eg. if the files selected correspond to every
>file in a directory they can be replaced by '*'.
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True, but not in the general case :-)

Anyway, I do not think this is much of a problem in practice - and any 
fix would be specific to CVSNT, and thus would not work with other 
flavours of CVS.

>I'm surprised the limit is so low... I know it is if you pass through
>cmd.exe but direct it should be OK for much more parameters.
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Yes, when I tried to determine the limit for the NT family, I was led to 
believe it was 32768, but it appears that it actually is 4096, which is 
indeed surprisingly low..

-Torsten