Ben The Idea of posting diffs is good when project is in a bit mature stage and diffs produced are small and readable. However in the beginning of any project developers do lot of refactoring and commit sizes are big. Given that situation the long list of diffs pasted in email look ugly and practically useless.
If I am really interested in looking at the diff I can just use svn diff. I believe there should be an option to turn ON/OFF this diff attachment behavior. Thanks -rajeev. On Apr 15, 7:40 pm, Darren Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, there's no way to do this right now. Sending diffs in emails > > is the norm in most open source development, since it encourages peers > > to review code changes by lowering the effort to near-zero -- the > > diffs appear in the inbox, and all peers have to do is reply to the > > email. > > Sorry to butt in to the conversation but I would just like to ask a question > given this response. :-) > > Given what you have said, what do you feel is the role of commit comments > within Google Code compared to simply replying to a commit email? > > We frequently have this confusion on our project. I encourage the > development team to post comments on commits on the web-site rather than > through private email if at all possible. Just today in fact, I asked a > colleague to (re-)post the text of his email to the site as a commit > comment. To me, this seems in keeping with the spirit of Open Source and we > try to do it where possible. > > It would be ideal if we allowed email responses to commits and this turned > into commit comments automatically. I seem to remember seeing a similar (if > not the same) issue but I can't find it now. > > Interested to hear your thoughts. > > Many thanks, > > :Darren. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > :Darren :Pearce > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > *** Shop & Donate:http://buy.at/campuskids*** > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > Postdoctoral Researcher > London Knowledge Lab, University of London > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > Visiting Research Fellow > Informatics, University of Sussex > http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] > http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
