[PD-dev] pd-cvs shall include diffs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 12, 2009, at 5:19 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> The occasional >1meg emails from big commits are kind of a pain,  
>> like when doing an import or merge.  It was nice to have immediate  
>> access to scan the diffs for sure.   But the web interface to the  
>> diffs is a lot more useful.  Ideally, there would be a size cutoff  
>> for the diffs, like 50k or something.
>> If you really want it, I can deal with it again...
>
> no problem, i can deal with it as well :-)
>
> as for the sizes: i guess i have pointed out in an earlier mail,  
> that i personally think, that source-files should not contain  
> (excessive) data. e.g. HRTFs (this was the main reason, wasn't it?)  
> are _much_ better stored in soundfiles than in header-files.  
> inappropriate use should not keep use from having features.

If I import code into the 'sources' tree (for Windows), then all of  
that code will be sent to pd-cvs.  I think the same goes for a merge.   
That's a lot of email.

.hc

> as for the pain: no one is obliged to subscribing to pd-cvs. those  
> who want to stay up-to-date on a short notice, can use IRC for that  
> (i guess there are some filtering options, where you can tell your  
> client to just display the cia-bot messages)
>
> finally, if you opt to receive pd-cvs in non-digest mode, you can  
> select whether you want to receive emails of all topics, or only of  
> topic "autobuild" or only of topic "CVS".
> since i don't know of anybody using this feature (iirc, it was a  
> feature request by tim), i don't know whether it actually works, so  
> take care :-)
>
> fmga,.sdr
> IOhannes




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