On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > Why the diff? I don't remember the absence of a diff being a > problem in the svn era (or at least wasn't argued much on the > mailing lists).
I think the diffs are nice to have there (as for binutils-gdb and glibc) for following the development on gcc-cvs. > Can we remove them altogether? The hooks have an option hooks.disable-email-diff to stop sending diffs, but it looks like it disables the diffstat as well so then the emails wouldn't include the list of changed files either. > If not, can we cap the messages at a size limit? They are capped. hooks.max-email-diff-size is currently set to 524288 (I'm not sure what the exact message size limit is on the gcc-cvs mailing list, but emails larger than that were quite common for some branch merges in the SVN era because of very long lists of files changed). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
