From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Disable emacs-diffs mails for scratch branches Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:00:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87o9yqzyq0.fsf@engster.org> References: <87sho3zewk.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485637321 30376 195.159.176.226 (28 Jan 2017 21:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:02:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 28 22:01:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa85-0006oe-GP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:01:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa8A-0005im-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa7C-0004ir-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:00:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa78-0006hi-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:32953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa77-0006gg-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:00:50 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=Lf+NDcaDdmFiFhHbkkucNUKXqoAv51zqOsK8k6VD+YY=; b=BORB3LXD0y04OCnfFtJyrdgk3bagn0iKs//PkVBgMgkcWoyMZz2nQ65nF68VUK3qqCZ1Amm2Du4UBDSHV9xVdaAjYyi83Wr0b/PdPPNGtxrGaRipdKbHwYv6oQkWYMER; Original-Received: from ip4d16b353.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.22.179.83] helo=isaac) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cXa73-0000Fh-UZ; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:00:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:35:01 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211711 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Subject says it all. Could we please do that? I think it's pretty normal >> for scratch-Branches being deleted and pushed anew, and for large >> branches like cedet-merge or cedet-tests this needlessly creates >> hundreds of mails each time. > > I agree that those 300 emails dumps are more annoying than useful. > But FWIW, I see two problems with your suggestion: > 1- I don't know how to do it. We'd have to adapt the post-receive hook, or whatever else is triggering the mails. > 2- I do find it very useful to see commits on scratch branches when > those branches are used for gradual development (e.g. the byte-switch > branch). How about simply not naming those branches with the 'scratch' prefix, then? I was under the impression that 'scratch' means "can be force-pushed/deleted any time, don't base your work onto it". -David