Git Bash: Raising maximum command-line length?

[antti5]

I'm using the latest version of Git Bash on Windows 11, and the maximum length of a command-line seems to be 32,768 characters.

Quite often when working in large directories and running something like some-command * I get the error about argument list being too long.

Is there anything I can do to raise this limit? Tried to look with Google, and I could not find anything. This may well be an underlying Windows limitation.

I'm aware of the usual workarounds such as using xargs, but I find the limit quite restrictive compared to for example the 2,097,152 character limit on modern Linux distributions.

[dscho]

It would appear that this is hard-coded by "the kernel", in this instance the MSYS2 runtime (which is derived from Cygwin). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19354870/bash-command-line-and-input-limit#19355351 has good details about this. I fear that this is a build-time value that you cannot change.

[rimrul]

And by some digging it seems to be a pretty hard limit based on CreateProcess() that would need some big help from Microsoft to change, even at build time.