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From: "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>
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Subject: Re: Official GCC git repository
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:30 AM, NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/08, Christopher Faylor
>
>
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
>  > After consultation with Dan, I have set things up on gcc.gnu.org so that
>  > the git repository is updated every time an email message is received
>  > from the gcc-cvs mailing list.
>  >
>  > We'll be monitoring the system to see if there is a load hit.  If so,
>  > we'll probably drop back to Dan's original method.
>
>  FWIW, I did a quick calculation of the current month of commits, and
>  there is an average of 31 per day, throwing out a crazy outlier of
>  121.
>
>  Incorporating the 121 brings the average to 36 (next highest past 121
>  is 53, all other values are below 38.

The problem with commits is that the average is not what matters.
Commits are bursty.
People make 5 commits to different branches in the course of a minute
or two, then there is nothing for another 15 minutes, etc.