error 7: very big file list to add to git

[samuelbernardo]

There is a problem when there is many ldap objects that results in many ldif files to be commited. Please review this problem.

[xtaran]

• Can you tell us what magnitude you're talking about?
• What is the exact error message you're getting?
• Which git version did this happen with?

[samuelbernardo]

• Can you tell us what magnitude you're talking about? 104899 ldap objects that result in the same number of ldif files.

• What is the exact error message you're getting? It gives a dump of the list of all files separated by spaces to stdout that I omit below:

exec "add <list of ldif files separated by spaces> ": command returned error: 7

I'm using debian 9 package to install the scripts: Package: ldap-git-backup Version: 1.0.7-1

• Which git version did this happen with? git version 2.11.0

[samuelbernardo]

To correct the problem I just have done a find for all files ending in ldif and then exec git add for each one.

I didn't test with git add -A that would do the same, since in the backup directory only exists the ldif files. I only realise that after.

[rda0]

Please have a look at #6, which probably fixes this bug. The details are explained in commit 55d5d7e0702cc8cdddae5531f6dae5d71560e595.

This does git add and git rm in multiple chunks, if the total argument length exceeds 1048576 characters.