I've recently had an issue where running gitk --all has stopped
working on a large repository of mine. Gitk's main window appears with
all of the sections empty, and a modal tells me 'Error executing git
log: couldn't execute git: argument list too long'.
I'm on OS X, and am running git version 2.4.3 installed via homebrew.
getconf ARG_MAX tells me that the maximum argument length is 262144
bytes. git tag|wc -l tells me that there 5271 tags in the repo, and
more are added regularly. I think that's what set it over recently.
For now I've worked around the issue by running gitk --branches
instead.
I searched for other mentions of this issue, and found this issue from
I think this same mailing list:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg243731.html . Trying to run gitk
--all in the chromium git repo (available at
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git) gives me the same
issue too always as Nicolas reported.
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