Git commit content

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

Honest question

Since these files are generated, and create huge hurdles to commit, was not
make sense to generate this on build time and avoid such huge commits ?

Or we have a technical block that maybe we can help to solve ?


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On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 1:17 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Over the past couple of months we have had several incidents where people
> have needed/attempted to push large text files into KDE Git repositories.
>
> While this does not seem immediately problematic, it is something that
> unfortunately the email sending components of our Git hooks are unable to
> handle (likely due to them embedding commit diffs into the body of emails).
>
> This results in them consuming an entire CPU core of the server until
> Gitlab times out on them and kills them (failing the push/merge in the
> process).
>
> For the most part these have been programmatically generated data sources,
> making the diffs of little use.
>
> Where possible it is recommended not to commit these sort of artifacts to
> KDE Git repositories, but where it is not avoidable please ensure that:
> a) The data is not all on a single line (JSON pretty print where possible);
> b) That the file has been flagged as binary data using .gitattributes
>
> This should assist the email generating components of the hooks in more
> easily handling the content.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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