[Geany-devel] GIT commit mails format

[Frank Lanitz]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:29:36 -0700
Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> On 11-10-31 05:00 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> > On 25/10/2011 00:33, Lex Trotman wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> If we go back to individual commit mails with diffs, is there
> >>> anyway to limit how many individual messages get sent out at once
> >>> and how many lines
> >>> can be in a diff? Ex. if we merge the gtkbuilder branch at some
> >>> point, is
> >>> there anyway to prevent from flooding the list with all those
> >>> commit mails
> >>> but to send individual ones for regular 2 or 3 commits in a row?
> >
> > I'm not sure we would see a flood on a merge, probably only one
> > commit saying 'merged gtkbuilder branch'? The gtkbuilder commits
> > should appear as they are committed, not on merge.
> >
> 
> I think when you merge it makes all the commits onto the branch that
> was merged into also.  At least this is what happened on the
> xfce-commits list when one of the devs merged several branches with a
> total of 800+ commits in them, each triggering a commit mail :)

Isn't --no-ff or --squash not able to prevent this? 

Cheers, 
Frank 

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