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Re: PR1634: Request for gcc-cvs-patches list
On 11/26/07, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 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.
It does.
> 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.
>
You don't even need to do this, you can tell it to send patches to one
address and just what it does now to the other, and it will happily do
so in one run :)
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
>