Hi Joseph, Thanks, good to hear things will get better.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:19:13PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > > It should never send email for user branches *at all*. > > I think sending email for all branches showing the development taking > place there (as opposed to commits that are already in the repository and > are just being added to another ref) is entirely appropriate. Not for these branches. All my user branches rebase. All diffs you mail have to be three-way diffs, and even then they won't be super useful (mostly showing conflict resolutions, and the few that are not are patch series refactorings, and much much fewer you finally get the actual patches). This shouldn't be archived at all, either, btw, IMNSHO; another reason why it should not be sent to a mailing list. > I don't know if deleting and then recreating a user branch (in separate > pushes) avoids the limit (and the excess mails) in the case where a user > branch is being rebased, but I expect it should. I suspect that will work fine -- pushing the branch originally didn't cause over a million emails, either. But that is much less convenient and MUCH more error-prone than just allowing all rebases on user branches in the first place -- and in fact it *does* seem to allow that, it's just some "let's send a gazillion emails" script that is misbehaving. Segher
