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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)


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


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