On Jul 5, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Reid Spencer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 00:33 -0700, Reid Spencer wrote: >>> >>> Wow, this sucks. Instead of telling me everything, it told me >>> nothing. >> >> The defaults were set too low for both the size of the email >> (100K) and >> the maximum number of parts (files changed = 10). I've changed it so >> that it will just print all the diffs up to 1MB. If the diff is >> larger >> than that then it will do "showurls" which means it will print the >> viewvc URL that will generate the diff for each file changed. This >> seems >> like a reasonable compromise to me. >> > > Actually, I changed my mind. I've set svn-mailer up to now have this > property: > > long_mail_action = split/truncate/10000 > > This will cause svn-mailer to create up to 10000 emails for a large > commit (diffs > 1MB). Each email contains 1 diff of a modified > file. If > that diff is > 1MB, it gets truncated. The email will be marked with > [1/23], [2/23], [3/23] ... [23/23] so you know which emails go with > which commit and in which order.
Thank you! I consider this to be very important for the mailing list archive. -Chris > The reason for this change is twofold: > > 1. make sure the mailing list is a "backup" of sorts of the > changes > made to llvm. If something horrid happens and we lose the > backups of the repository, at worst we have to manually > apply a > bunch of commits from the email list. I have all commits since > 2003 :) > 2. most of us like to read the diffs from the email and having to > go back and forth between the link in the email and a web > browser is a pain. That can be done anyway even with this > scheme. So, having the multi-part emails gives us the best of > both worlds. > > Reid. > > > _______________________________________________ > llvm-commits mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits
