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Re: Too large messages on glibc-cvs@


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:14:18PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:09:56PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Roland McGrath wrote:
> >> > Jim is our local expert on the git scripts.
> >> > But I'm sure this issue is not new among all other projects using git.
> >> > If anybody else has script hacks for this stuff, please come forward.
> >>
> >> I noticed those, too.  I wrote/posted a tiny script to insert into the
> >> existing hook.  I'll actually test and install it Thursday or Friday.
> >
> >   I'm now adding this hook to repo.or.cz and I'd like to do this too,
> > I'm wondering, how did you do this?
> 
> Hi Petr,
> 
> I wrote this limit-pipe script:
> 
>     http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-05/msg00056.html
> 
> but I never got around to making the hook use it.

Ah, thanks. In the end, I went with much simpler hack in mail.sh, since
I'm using a customized one myself anyway...

> size_limit()
> {
>         size=0
>         while IFS= read line; do
>                 size=$((size+${#line}))
>                 if [ $size -gt $1 ]; then
>                         echo "...e-mail trimmed, has been too large."
>                         break
>                 fi
>                 echo "$line"
>         done
> }

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
A lot of people have my books on their bookshelves.
That's the problem, they need to read them. -- Don Knuth


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