Christopher Faylor wrote:
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
I'm just going to come out and admit that it was probably me who caused
all this. I appreciate the anonymity afforded by everyone, and I
apologize. I promise I will not make this mistake again. In my
defense, I want to say that your reasons are good enough, but I did not
know them beforehand. No one informed me of any commit policies when I
was given subversion access. I thought that since I was working on a
branch, I had free reign. Education would go a long way in preventing
future errors.
- John
