google-java-format Files list argument exceeds the OS limit

[vorburger]

UNLESS I'm misinterpreting what's happening,

in enola-dev/enola#1799,

it seems to me that in my mono-repo project I've hit the limit of passing (all) *.java files as arguments to google-java-format.

@macisamuele IFF there was google/google-java-format#1285, would you be open to a PR using that here?

[vorburger]

@macisamuele IFF there was google/google-java-format#1285, would you be open to a PR using that here?

It turns out, see google/google-java-format#1288, that google-java-format already (as-is) supports this:

Using @<filename> reads options and filenames from a file, instead of arguments.

@macisamuele if I create a PR which would write all filenames into a temporary file, and pass that, instead of stuffing everything into the command line, would you be open to reviewing and merging such a PR?

[macisamuele]

Sorry for the long absence in here.

Definitely, if you were able to create a PR it would be reviewed.

Ideally, we could create a temp file containing all the paths to be passed as @filename.
If, by chance, we know the number of files that will trigger the issue and use the temp file only after that it would be even better.