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Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging
- From: Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>
- To: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Manuel L?pez-Ib??ez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:03:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging
- References: <6c33472e0808160535w5770deb7wcd4aca4a746b2588@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:35:08PM +0200, Manuel L?pez-Ib??ez wrote:
>Dear GCC devs,
>
>Please do *not* use the full logs of the merged revisions as the
>commit message of a merge. Apart from making the output of svn log
>useless, commits messages are parsed are tracked for PR numbers, the
>commit message is added to the bugzilla page of the PR and people
>subscribed to the relevant PR in bugzilla are notified of the commit.
>Therefore a single merge of many revisions would result in a flood of
>mails sent for no good reason and they make a mess of the bugzilla
>page.
>
>I am sure many of you have been hit by this recently. Please, let's
>try to avoid this.
If that isn't a good enough reason, doing this completely swamps
gcc.gnu.org as it valiantly attempts to send all of the above email.
This resulted in a load average of 24 on the system last night and kept
me awake until 2:30AM trying to stabilize things.
cgf