[dokuwiki/el5/master] - Upgrade to latest upstream - large patches in git

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Thu Jan 20 13:05:28 UTC 2011


I guess anyone on the scm-commits list would have seen a few like this:

On 18/01/11 08:59, topdog wrote:
>  dokuwiki-2010-11-07a.tgz              |  Bin 0 -> 2758654 bytes
>  dokuwiki-rm-bundled-libs.patch        |54035 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  dokuwiki-use-fedora-email-valid.patch |   12 -
>  dokuwiki-use-fedora-geshi.patch       |   25 -
>  dokuwiki.spec                         |   57 +-
>  sources                               |    1 -
>  6 files changed, 54084 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/dokuwiki-2010-11-07a.tgz b/dokuwiki-2010-11-07a.tgz

Even just opening this email takes my machine 4 seconds. Trying to hit
reply took more than 2 minutes before I terminated thunderbird.

Should that 54000 line patch have been added as a new source and
uploaded to the lookaside cache, rather than into git proper ?

If not, then a 2596K Byte commits email is a bit over the top. Perhaps
we could have the automation check the size of the commit, and send the
email with only the first 200 lines or whatever is common ?


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