tag file is very large

[GeekerFeng]

Describe the bug when I read the linux kernel source code ， generating tag file is very large, 1000M size, when I press ctrl+], tell me "431: Format error in tags file" . in my source, it is works fine

Steps to reproduce

1. just read the linux kernel source code

Share your setup let g:gutentags_project_root = ['.svn','.git','.root','MAINTAINERS', 'COPYING','.project']

"let g:gutentags_trace = 1

let g:gutentags_file_list_command = { \'markers': { \'cscope.lst': 'taglslist', \'.git': 'taglslist', \'MAINTAINERS': 'taglslist', \'COPYING': 'taglslist', }, }

let g:gutentags_gtags_options_file = '.gtags.optconf.log' let g:gutentags_ctags_tagfile = '.tags'

let g:gutentags_modules = [] if executable('ctags') let g:gutentags_modules += ['ctags'] endif if executable('gtags-cscope') && executable('gtags') let g:gutentags_modules += ['gtags_cscope'] endif

let s:vim_tags = expand('~/.cache/tags') let g:gutentags_cache_dir = s:vim_tags

Post the logs E431: Format error in tags file "/home/pynix/.cache/tags/home-pynix-kernel- .tags"

ls -lh

drwxr-xr-x 2 pynix pynix  4.0K  8Mon 27 13:53 home-pynix-Disk-kernel-
-rw-r--r-- 1 pynix pynix 1000M  8Mon 27 14:16 home-pynix-Disk-kernel-.tags

[ludovicchabant]

It looks suspicious that the tags file would be exactly 1000M... could you try running ctags manually and see if it generates an OK tags file? Either just ctags -R . at the root of the source (to start simple), or by setting let g:gutentags_trace = 1 and grabbing the full command line from the Gutentags log (to reproduce exactly what Guentags is doing).