Hi Rajeev,

This request is already being tracked in our /p/support project:
http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1295

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Thanks,
jason!

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:39 AM, rjha94 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
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