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Re: PR1634: Request for gcc-cvs-patches list
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On the other hand, if it is meant for human usage the file list is already a
> clue to spot "wrong" commits. Then, an equivalent but more versatile feature
> request would be to have patches visible online, with URLs like
> http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/?r1=119999r2=120000&view=patch (which would do a
> "svn diff -x -u -r119999 -r120000"). Such URLs currently work with files but
> not with directories. I don't know how fundamental a problem with ViewVC and
> svn-python bindings this is.
The primary function is for a human reading the list (where patches
directly inline in the message are by far preferable to URLs).
I believe the SVN log mailer supports mailing patches anyway. So you
could get 90% of the benefit by having the SVN mailer run twice for each
commit, once with the present configuration for gcc-cvs and once with a
different configuration (including patches, 10MB message size limit (and a
similarly large limit for the list itself), truncating rather than
splitting anything larger) for gcc-cvs-patches.
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Joseph S. Myers
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