On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:54 AM Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
> >
> > > Can you please disable email sending for user branch? Or does it make any
> > > sense?
> >
> > Email sending for user branches makes perfect sense, to make visible the
> > development going on.  It's specifically email sending for merges of
> > commits already present in the repository that doesn't seem useful, as
> > discussed in <https://github.com/AdaCore/git-hooks/issues/9>.  (And the
> > workaround for the limits, for now, is to merge not more than 1000 commits
> > at a time.)
> 
> Hmmm, I have the same problem now with the gccgo branch.  I just set
> up a merge, but it has 1304 commits.  Is there a simple way to merge
> fewer changes?

Specify a commit to merge form when running git merge, rather than the tip 
of the branch being merged from.

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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