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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/git/cmd.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/git/cmd.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/git/cmd.py b/lib/git/cmd.py index ef2fdf4e..3da46d5e 100644 --- a/lib/git/cmd.py +++ b/lib/git/cmd.py @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ class Git(object): """ __slots__ = ("_working_dir", "cat_file_all", "cat_file_header") + # CONFIGURATION + # The size in bytes read from stdout when copying git's output to another stream + max_chunk_size = 1024*64 + class AutoInterrupt(object): """ Kill/Interrupt the stored process instance once this instance goes out of scope. It is @@ -173,9 +177,11 @@ class Git(object): If set to a file-like object, data produced by the git command will be output to the given stream directly. This feature only has any effect if as_process is False. Processes will - always be created with a pipe due to issues with subprocess. - This merely is a workaround as data will be copied from the + always be created with a pipe as subprocess.Popen can only accept system + file descriptors, not python objects ( such as StringIO ). + This merely is a workaround as the data will be copied from the output pipe to the given output stream directly. + See also: Git.max_chunk_size ``**subprocess_kwargs`` Keyword arguments to be passed to subprocess.Popen. Please note that @@ -227,7 +233,7 @@ class Git(object): if output_stream is None: stdout_value = proc.stdout.read().rstrip() # strip trailing "\n" else: - max_chunk_size = 1024*64 + max_chunk_size = self.max_chunk_size while True: chunk = proc.stdout.read(max_chunk_size) output_stream.write(chunk) |