Re: How to submit a LARGE patch

[Jeremy Bennett <jeremy dot bennett at embecosm dot com>]

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 14:35 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> My own preference is to submit is as text, not as binary attachment.
> Unless your mailer does all kinds of dirty tricks with text, such as
> folding long lines etc., this makes reviewing the patch by far the
> easiest.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm happy to submit as plain text, but the PNG & PDF versions of the
image have to be binary (or uuencoded binary).

> 
> > I've made some suggested changes to the GDB Internals manual, but since
> > the change includes an image, the diff file is nearly 300k, when gzipped
> > and uuencoded.
> 
> How large it is before gzip?

500k. That's broken down as:
 82k - changes to gdbint.texinfo source
 48k - original image (SVG)
  1k - text version of image (for info)
 67k - PNG version of image (binary, for HTML)
 78k - PDF version of image (binary, for PDF)
218k - EPS version of image (for DVI)
 
gzip reduces it to 200k, uuencoding (as suggested in the CONTRIBUTE
file) inflates it back to 300k.

I can break down the patch into just the Texinfo change and then each
image separately. Your further suggestions on this would be welcome.

Thanks,


Jeremy
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