Bug 214485

Trying to manually land the patch from bug 214414 failed with:

$ Tools/Scripts/webkit-patch land -g HEAD
Logging in as clopez@igalia.com...
Fetching: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214414&ctype=xml&excludefield=attachmentdata
Guessing "Chris Dumez" as reviewer from attachment 404571 [details] on bug 214414.
Total errors found: 0 in 6 files
COMMIT FAILED: [Errno 7] Argument list too long
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Tools/Scripts/webkit-patch", line 80, in <module>
    main()
  File "Tools/Scripts/webkit-patch", line 75, in main
    WebKitPatch(os.path.abspath(__file__)).main()
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/multicommandtool.py", line 305, in main
    result = command.check_arguments_and_execute(options, args, self)
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/multicommandtool.py", line 123, in check_arguments_and_execute
    return self.execute(options, args, tool) or 0
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/commands/abstractsequencedcommand.py", line 55, in execute
    self._sequence.run_and_handle_errors(tool, options, state)
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/commands/stepsequence.py", line 73, in run_and_handle_errors
    self._run(tool, options, state)
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/commands/stepsequence.py", line 67, in _run
    step(tool, options).run(state)
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/tool/steps/commit.py", line 89, in run
    svn_revision = scm.svn_revision_from_commit_text(commit_text)
  File "/home/clopez/webkit/webkit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/checkout/scm/scm.py", line 106, in svn_revision_from_commit_text
    return match.group('svn_revision')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'


This is likely caused because we are passing two many arguments to execve and causing an -E2BIG error.

I tried setting "ulimit -s unlimited" but didn't helped.

Linux has a hard 6MB limit on the arg stack size since https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/807670/ ... perhaps its related.