VS Code is complaining "Git: maximum call stack size exceeded"

Question

My Git repo has tens of thousands of refs

$ git for-each-ref --sort -committerdate --format "%(refname) %(objectname) %(*objectname)" | wc -l
$ 174158

When I click on the branch icon in the Git explorer, I see this screenshot

I clicked on the Git log which switched me to the log window but nothing useful there.

I increased the log level to TRACE of Git inside VS Code settings but nothing more useful is coming out.

Nothing in the current release of VS Code allows us to limit refs based on time etc. Anyway I can get the actual command and the traceback of the error?

Answer 1

If your repo have many tags. The VSCode cannot process it. Try to update vscode settings, remove tags from git.checkoutType:

  "git.checkoutType": [
    "local",
    "remote",
    // "tags",
  ],

To see how many tags in your repo. Run this command in the shell:

git tag | wc -l

Answer 2

try to run git remote prune origin