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Re: Huge email from glibc-cvs (was: GNU C Library master sourcesbranch, glibc-ports-merge, created. glibc-2.16.0-4491-ge84eabb)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <overseers at sourceware dot org>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:57:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: Huge email from glibc-cvs (was: GNU C Library master sourcesbranch, glibc-ports-merge, created. glibc-2.16.0-4491-ge84eabb)
- References: <20120701132016.919.qmail@sourceware.org> <87lij25vjk.fsf@schwinge.name><87fw9a5v02.fsf@schwinge.name>
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > The [...] part was about 27 MiB of text. Ouch, poor sourceware machine
> > and Internet connection... I thought there was some maximum-size
> > filtering being applied, but perhaps there's something misconfigured?
I previously suggested a size limit after a 504MB message soon after the
move to git <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-05/msg00046.html> (I
suppose the mailer decided to send out the whole libc history then because
it hadn't previously been mailed out - this one was just the whole ports
history). But it appears nothing was implemented. And you want an
approach that shows there was a huge commit / merge (without showing all
the diffs), rather than one that makes nothing at all appear on glibc-cvs
and so makes the commit's existence much less visible, so simply limiting
the size of messages to the list isn't an appropriate approach.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com