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
