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From: "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: "Ben Elliston" <bje@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gcc-cvs commit mail
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4aca3dc20702112001o2f042430jca402fa185af5d81@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171236749.9635.1.camel@localhost>

On 2/11/07, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> It seems that the server-side commit scripts for subversion on
> gcc.gnu.org are truncating Subject: lines.  For example:
>
>                            Subject:
> r121787 - in /trunk/contrib:
> ChangeLog test_sum...
>
> Is there any reason why would do this, as opposed to letting mail
> clients show as much of the subject lines as possible (and truncating
> the rest itself)?  I find these subject lines too short to be very
> useful.
>

Some people get very annoyed with really long subject lines. I can't
please everyone :)

The max length is 50 right now. Feel free to edit
/hooks/svnmailer.conf to make it 1024 or something.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11 23:32 Ben Elliston
2007-02-12  4:01 ` Daniel Berlin [this message]

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