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Re: SVN commit logs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Aug 23 15:48:24 2008

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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The downside is that big imports will generate ginormous mail messages.
The hook scripts we're using does not have a "maximum diff size" knob,
unfortunately.

I don't currently know of any plans to do imports into the athena10
repository, so I've turned on diffs for added files.

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:04 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Can we get commit logs of added nonbinary files? It's actually kind of 
> confusing to see commit logs with some but not all of the diffs, and then 
> wonder whether the code that just got mentioned on athena10@ actually got 
> checked in. It would also help being able to do effective post-commit 
> review (for both sanity and security) immensely; currently there's a lot 
> of code going in that isn't being read by anyone other than the commiter, 
> and we commit with null instances.
> 


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