On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:58:52PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 09:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > Commit 52eee8e5 ("Fix .po files") was not sent to lyx-cvs. I imagine it
> > is because the commit is 13MB. I think it is a good decision not to send
> > patches that are too large, but it would be nice to receive at least the
> > commit message and the stats (which files were changed), and possibly a
> > message at the end that says the patch is too large to include.
>
> I'm guessing the SMTP server rejected the message. There's nothing in
> the email sending script, so far as I'm aware, that would stop its being
> sent. I'm not sure if there's some way to see how big the commit is and
> omit the diff in some cases. That'd maybe be a good feature anyway,
> since remerges are just annoying in that regard. If someone wants to
> look at this, I can provide some pointers.
Ah good to know. I agree it would be nice to have a limit anyway. I
would make the limit pretty small. 500K? It is so easy to just do a
git fetch
and I imagine most people subscribed to the list would prefer to keep
their mail folder small.
Scott
