[Geany-devel] GIT commit mails format

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 15/01/2012 23:53, Enrico Tröger a écrit :
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:35:35 -0800, Matthew wrote:
>
>> On 01/15/2012 12:03 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> If we agree to change the commit mails to this format, I'd deploy
>>>> the script soon.
>>>>

I'd very much like it, and I'm fine with the format :)

>>>
>>> Hi Enrico,
>>>
>>> Actually I've become used to the standard github commit emails and
>>> clicking on the link for the diff.
>>>
>>> Especially for large changes like geany.html or geany.glade (despite
>>> Matthew and Colomban "promising" the diffs will get smaller with
>>> 3.8.1) not being blasted by large diffs is good.  I can choose what I
>>> want to see, and don't get the two line diff of geany.txt cut off
>>> because the huge geany.html diff exceeds the size limit.
>>>
>>> I don't suppose that you could let registration for the commit ML
>>> allow a choice of which we want?
>
> Nope.
> The only option would be two separate mailing lists.
>
> Though the general idea about the diffs was to limit the diff size to
> something like 100kb (as it was before in the SF SVN commit mails) or
> any other value which we consider reasonable.
>
>
>> Or make it so no diff is shown for autogenerated files like geany.html
>> and geany.glade ?
>>
>> It'd be the best of both worlds then, IMO.
>
> Yeah, a little hackish but would solve the problem probably well enough
> together with a general max commit diff size limit.

Why not, until we finally understand how the $@!% Glade choose to output 
in one order or another.  But please keep the info the file got 
modified, don't drop it entirely :)

Cheers,
Colomban