Re: update from the git battlefield

[Trevor Daniels]

Johannes Schindelin wrote Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:51 PM
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> > Mark Polesky wrote Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:25 AM
> > >
> > > I'm git-weary but still alive. Johannes spent *hours* debugging
> > > my problem, and eventually traced it to an undiscovered bug
> > > in gitk that only affects Microsoft Windows...
> >
> > Nice to have you operational again.  Thanks Johannes!
> >
> > Can you say what the bug is?  I use gitk all the time in Windows 
> > Vista
> > and previously in Windows XP without any problems.  Maybe I don't 
> > use
> > the part of its functionality which is in error, or maybe my 
> > version is
> > older (it doesn't want to tell me what version it is, but it came 
> > with
> > git 1.5.4.2.1161.g1a6f0).  But I'd sure like to avoid the bug :)
>
> The problem is the limitation of the command line on Windows. 
> Mark has a
> shallow clone, and it was kept shallow all the time, basically
> accumulating commits that are not really parent-less, but in this
> repository, they are.
>
> So gitk was calling git with a way-too-long command line, and it 
> just
> died, taking gitk with it.

That explains why I don't see the problem -
I have a full repo.

Does that mean shallow clones are inadvisable
on Windows?

Trevor