On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org> wrote:
>
> [Hyrum K Wright]
>> Through I series of scripts, I've updated the various log messages
>> which reference pre-ASF revisions. I have not yet made the changes to
>> the ASF repo, for a couple of reasons: I'm not sure that we have
>> consensus on doing so, and there are a large number of changes to make
>> (~10 000, likely causing a flood of mail to commits@).
>
> +1. But if there's a way to disable the emails for the duration, even
> better. What I'd probably do is to produce trimmed diff output,
> something like this:
>
> -r850050:Tweaks to new make generator code introduced in r9935. These changes
> +r850050:Tweaks to new make generator code introduced in r850009. These changes
> -r850051:extra whitespace from project files introduced in r9935. These changes
> +r850051:extra whitespace from project files introduced in r850009. These changes
> -r850054:Fix bug that caused tests to fail introduced in r9965.
> +r850054:Fix bug that caused tests to fail introduced in r850039.
>
> ...maybe with a blank line or something between revs, and post it in
> some way.
We could probably work with infra to disable the post-revprop-change
hook for a bit while this operation runs. I'm happy to generate a
summary email of the results for review (or preview).
-Hyrum
Received on 2011-02-17 00:33:18 CET