Re: Commit emails (was Re: git status update?)

[Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> No cover mail is sent in the simplest case of someone just pushing
> series of commits at once with no merge or other complications involved.
> It's possible that the numbering should be left out as well. Though it
> helps with the current misordering.

Ah, ok.  Yeah, I'm not sure the numbering buys much, misordering
notwithstanding.

>> At least one email (for gnome-bluetooth) had broken metadata:
>>
>>     * [no subject], Unknown
>
> Looks at that mail in detail - it's an svn commit mail. :-)

Yeah, but that doesn't explain why the email has a git-style subject?
Is something being trampled?

>> In a large multiple commit batch, many of the emails in the archive
>> were very out-of-order:
>
> Yeah, I'm hating that. I don't have much of an idea for fixing though
> other than adding a 'sleep 1' between the mails, making the commit take
> 17 seconds longer and hoping that fixes.

Heh, that was going to be my suggestion as well. :)

I doubt the timing matters too much on the receiving end -- people
usually don't obsessively reload their mail clients for commit mails,
I assume.  Depending on the volume I might be worried about falling
too far behind, but that's probably not going to be too big of a
problem unless somebody pushes out hundreds of commits at a time.

Joe