Re: Maximum size of commit messages
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> My last commit was rather large, exceeding the 40K maximum on the
> cdd-commits list. After an hour-long delay I finally clued in and
> intervened manually, since I am the list administrator. We need to
> either trim the size of the posts made by our cdd-commits posting
> script, or raise the maximum on the cdd-commits list, or both.
>
> I am eager to hear everyone's comments and suggestions on this matter.
If you ask me nobody will really read a 40K change via mail. If somebody
is interested in this large commits he will check out the relevant
files. I'd just crop the commits after a maximum of say 1000 lines
which will give a raw impression what has changed.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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