Re: Huge email from glibc-cvs (was: GNU C Library master sources branch, glibc-ports-merge, created. glibc-2.16.0-4491-ge84eabb)

Re: Huge email from glibc-cvs (was: GNU C Library master sources branch, glibc-ports-merge, created. glibc-2.16.0-4491-ge84eabb)

[Thomas Schwinge]

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Hi!

Trying again -- apparently mere mortals are not allowed to post the the
glibc-cvs list (thus now CCing libc-alpha), and also not allowed to copy
both a project list and overseers at the same time without being in a
white list (which I now hopefully am).

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:03:59 +0200, I wrote:
> On 1 Jul 2012 13:20:16 -0000, jsm28@sourceware.org wrote:
> > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
> > generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
> > the project "GNU C Library master sources".
> > 
> > The branch, glibc-ports-merge has been created
> >         at  e84eabb3871c9b39e59323bf3f6b98c2ca9d1cd0 (commit)
> > 
> > - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e84eabb3871c9b39e59323bf3f6b98c2ca9d1cd0
> > 
> > commit e84eabb3871c9b39e59323bf3f6b98c2ca9d1cd0
> > Merge: 75f0d30 e64ac02
> > Author: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> > Date:   Sun Jul 1 13:08:59 2012 +0000
> > 
> >     Merge glibc-ports into ports/ directory.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > commit 9a64fa84a67e2e09a69330c7c9073fe4201bd036
> > Author: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
> > Date:   Sun Apr 16 23:29:02 1989 +0000
> > 
> >     Initial revision
> > 
> > diff --git a/sysdeps/vax/jmp_buf.h b/sysdeps/vax/jmp_buf.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..46ddc6a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/sysdeps/vax/jmp_buf.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> > +/* Define the machine-dependent type `jmp_buf'.  Vax version.  */
> > +
> > +typedef struct
> > +  {
> > +    PTR __fp;
> > +    PTR __pc;
> > +  } jmp_buf[1];
> 
> The [...] part was about 27 MiB of text.  Ouch, poor sourceware machine
> and Internet connection...  I thought there was some maximum-size
> filtering being applied, but perhaps there's something misconfigured?
> (CCing overseers for that.)  (And, of course, I do not blame Joseph for
> that huge email; he's just the one who did the »git push«.)


Grüße,
 Thomas

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Re: Huge email from glibc-cvs (was: GNU C Library master sources branch, glibc-ports-merge, created. glibc-2.16.0-4491-ge84eabb)

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> > The [...] part was about 27 MiB of text.  Ouch, poor sourceware machine
> > and Internet connection...  I thought there was some maximum-size
> > filtering being applied, but perhaps there's something misconfigured?

I previously suggested a size limit after a 504MB message soon after the 
move to git <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-05/msg00046.html> (I 
suppose the mailer decided to send out the whole libc history then because 
it hadn't previously been mailed out - this one was just the whole ports 
history).  But it appears nothing was implemented.  And you want an 
approach that shows there was a huge commit / merge (without showing all 
the diffs), rather than one that makes nothing at all appear on glibc-cvs 
and so makes the commit's existence much less visible, so simply limiting 
the size of messages to the list isn't an appropriate approach.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com