On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:08:29PM +0100, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> > On 29.10.2013 17:30, stefan2_at_apache.org wrote:
> > > + * r1536790
> > > + Limit the time spent in committing files with deep change histories
> > > + Justification:
> > > + The problem has been observed in the real world with certain
> > > + committs taking hours instead of seconds. This patch sets a
> > > + firm limit to the internal processing effort and cuts it down
> > > + from several hours to a few minutes.
> >
> > Is this a critical bug fix? Doesn't seem to me to be a backport
> > candidate for 1.7.x.
> >
>
> Well I spend a couple of hours today with a customer trying to figure out
> what was going on ...
Officially, we're only applying security and data corruption
fixes to 1.7.x at this point.
I don't mind other fixes being backported and released, if there
are people who want to spend time nominating them and voting on them.
Exceptions to the above rule have certainly been made before.
Received on 2013-10-29 20:32:10 CET