Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Really) Fix install-doc-quick target

From: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:55:39 +0200

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Mark Levedahl <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> +    printf "$mandir/%s\n" $(git ls-tree -r --name-only $head) | xargs
>> gzip -f
> 
> No risk that ls-tree output is too long to fit within the exec
> args limit to run printf?

Perhaps this instead?

   git ls-tree -r --name-only $head | (cd "$mandir" && xargs gzip -f)

René