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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:28:55 -0400
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: *** HEADS UP *** FreeBSD.org commit mail list changes
Message-ID:  <48F0E257.4090705@langille.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081011162922.GA47547@voi.aagh.net>
References:  <e7db6d980810071547o432ccad6n8e19a6c3ffce7bc@mail.gmail.com> <20081011162922.GA47547@voi.aagh.net>

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Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Peter Wemm (peter@wemm.org) wrote:
> 
>> * obviously the email format you get will be different.  If you've got
>> filters or scripts parsing email, I'm sorry I broke them.
> 
> Meh.  Maybe hooking something up directly to SVN would be better than
> writing yet another dodgy email parser.  I don't want to upset anyone
> with regular polling though.. not that I'm even entirely sure how I'd go
> about it in the first place.

You are welcome to the FreshPorts parsing code.

> 
>> * commit messages include diffs!  Email messages can be quite a bit
>> bigger.
> 
> Is there a cutoff for these, ala perforce?  I could pipe them through
> diffstat to keep freshbsd.org's Delta's updated, but if megacommits
> aren't going to work with that I'd need to either give them up or
> consider alternative ways of getting at them.
> 
> Also, we're no longer getting CVS file revisions, so I guess I should be
> using the SVN revision and linking to ViewVC now?

Good point... how will FreshPorts know whether to link to CVS or SVN.... 
  I'll keep that one in mind.


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