mdapi:pull --reporting error: LIMIT_EXCEEDED: 10000 files

[alexdberg]

My CI job is failing at the following step with the following error code.

Run sfdx shane:mdapi:pull -u me@example.com --reporting
asking your org about its metadata... Going to retrieve all the metadata you asked for...this could take a while
asking your org about its metadata... done
ERROR running shane:mdapi:pull:  Command failed: sfdx force:source:retrieve -x pkgDirTemp/Report/package.xml -w 30 -u me@example.com --json

Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

The job runs for only 2 min 30 sec total, but I manually ran the step and got the following error from sfdx-cli directly:

LIMIT_EXCEEDED: Too many files in retrieve call, limit is: 10000

So, it looks like I have too reports in my org now. As a workaround I can remove reports from my daily backup job, but that's not a big problem for me.

Two topics for improvement:

• Is it necessary to change the code to surface this error produced by the underlying sfdx-cli command?
• Does the maintainer want this sfdx-cli plugin to handle this limitation of the Salesforce API? One way this can be done is by splitting the package.xml into multiple package.xml files and retrieving each simultaneously.