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Fix truncation of parameters that could occur when using xargs git-annex.

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This will only ever result in a few more git-ls-files being run than were run
before. (Only 1 more is really needed, but around 10 more are currently run
for a max length command line.)

So, no need to worry about the extra zombie, or lost laziness due to concat.
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Joey Hess 2015-04-02 01:18:00 -04:00
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@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Feeding git-annex a long list off directories, eg with xargs can have
ls-files command is longer than the git-annex command often, so it gets
truncated and some files are not processed.
> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
* It can take a really long time for git-annex to chew through the
git-ls-files results. There is probably an exponential blowup in the time
relative to the number of parameters. Some of the stuff being done to