Protocol error: too many arguments

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

> Dave Korn writes:
>  > > -----Original Message-----
>  > > From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Andrew Haley
>  > > Sent: 12 October 2004 14:10
>  > 
>  > > Despite doing my branch commit in individual directories rather than
>  > > top level, I got this message again today:
>  > > 
>  > > Protocol error: too many arguments
>  > > 
>  > > Last time I saw this error it resulted in corrupted attr files on the
>  > > server.
>  > > 
>  > > I'll try a fresh checkout once my commit is done.
>  > 
>  >   Should probably Cc overseers, as a heads-up.
> 
> Any mail I send to overseers bounces.
> 
> I wonder if anyone knows exactly what the limit is.  I'm guessing it's
> maybe a postcommit script that hits a kernel limit on the number of
> arguments to a command.

Current versions of the CVS server only accepts up to 10000 files in a
single commit.  I think this is a misguided attempt to limit memory
usage in the server.

Ian