After looking more closely at the vanilla Subversion version of the mailer.py script, I'm 99% sure that removing propchange from the generate_diffs list will have zero effect, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
Turns out Subversion's mailer.py once had a much larger set of property filtering options, but C. Mike (Pilato) thought the option set was too baroque, so he reverted the entire set - see <http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2944>. I've asked on #svn about re-instating the "ignore_props" and "ignore_propdiffs" regex-valued options - these would allow us to only ignore svn:mergeinfo diffs while still noting that files' properties have changed, without affecting other properties or their diffs. No responses yet, hopefully tomorrow. Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: mergeinfo commit mails, possible solution > > From #lucene IRC: > gsingers:sarowe and I were talking about the mergeinfo commit overload > [09:43]gsingers:and the asf_mailer.conf file > [09:43]gsingers:In looking at the file > [09:44]gsingers:it appears the one thing we have the ability to do is to > turn off the generation of diffs for > [09:44]gsingers:events > [09:44]gsingers:The default setting is: > [09:44]gsingers:generate_diffs = add copy modify propchange > [09:44]gsingers:sarowe and I are proposing to change our settings to just > be add/copy/modify > [09:44]gsingers:and try dropping propchange > [09:45]gsingers:I honestly don't know whether it will work or not > [09:45]gsingers:and it will also likely mean we will miss notifications of > other propchanges > [09:45]gsingers:We've asked on #asfinfra if there are other options > [09:45]gsingers:and sarowe is looking into the mailer.py script to see if > there are other things available > [09:46]gsingers:I guess the question here is, do people want to try > turning off propchange? > > > -Grant > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
