Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Jason Merrill
On 1/17/20 9:22 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Joel Brobecker wrote: The main goal of the limit is really to avoid accidents where someone pushes something he shouldn't or something he didn't realize would push so many commits. If the GCC repository is such that merges of 100

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Joseph Myers
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Richard Biener wrote: > We also make sure (?) to not make them show up in bugzilla, right? That's already done; the email-to-bugzilla-filtered script only passes commits to master and release branches (i.e., pushes that update those refs) to Bugzilla. -- Joseph S. Myers

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Richard Biener
On January 17, 2020 3:22:11 PM GMT+01:00, Joseph Myers wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Joel Brobecker wrote: > >> The main goal of the limit is really to avoid accidents where someone >> pushes something he shouldn't or something he didn't realize would >> push so many commits. If the GCC

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Joseph Myers
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Joel Brobecker wrote: > The main goal of the limit is really to avoid accidents where someone > pushes something he shouldn't or something he didn't realize would > push so many commits. If the GCC repository is such that merges of > 100 commits or more is going to be, if not

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Joel Brobecker
Hi Ian, > As I noted, 100 commits to master is a small number, so I expect this problem > to fire almost every time someone does a merge of master to a devel or user > branch (unless they have the habit of doing that almost daily, which I doubt > for > most). The main goal of the limit is really

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-17 Thread Iain Sandoe
Hi Folks, Joel Brobecker wrote: You should include Joel on such questions as the expert on the hooks. I don't know whether there's something to put in the commit message to say "allow this merge of more than 100 commits". I don't think a squashed merge is the right workaround, supposing

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-16 Thread Joel Brobecker
Hello, > You should include Joel on such questions as the expert on the hooks. > > I don't know whether there's something to put in the commit message to say > "allow this merge of more than 100 commits". I don't think a squashed > merge is the right workaround, supposing you do want the git

Re: limit on emails for merge commits.

2020-01-16 Thread Joseph Myers
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Iain Sandoe wrote: > So I know that the policy is under review (and agree, from my PoV, that > something that represents these in a similar way to the SVN single mail > containing all the changes is probably optimum). > > However, right now I’m stuck - and really want to get