[Chandler-dev] Commits message size limits

[Grant Baillie]

On 1 Nov, 2007, at 10:41, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Currently large commits (500k?) will end up in a queue that will need
> manual handling. Typically bear has approved them all for trunk,  
> but has
> deleted some branch commit messages. Yesterday a large trunk commit  
> got
> deleted, which came as a big surprise at least to me.
>
> I would like us to set a policy so that we can avoid surprises in the
> future.
>
> My recommendation is to never delete any trunk commits messages.
>
> As for branches, I can see situations where a relatively old branch is
> brought up to date, which can result in a huge commit message without
> much value. Therefore I think it would be ok to delete large
> merge-from-trunk messages. I think I would like to raise the limit to
> something like 1 MB, though.

How about just omitting the diffs if they're large? People can click  
on the "Revision" link in the email (or,  use "svn diff" by hand).

--Grant