Re: [PATCH] git-svnimport.perl: fix for 'arg list too long...'

Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@voltaire.com> writes:

I wonder if feeding the list into a pipe to 'update-index --stdin' would be an option.

BTW, please do not do this:

        Mail-Followup-To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
                Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, git@vger.kernel.org

It is simply rude.

 * I and/or Smurf may be uninterested in hearing the whole
   discussion thread started by you.  We might well be, but that
   is not something you shoudl decide upfront in your message.

 * When a recipient of your message tries to "[R]eply" to *you*,
   that Mail-Followup-To: would cause the MUA to address that
   message to me and/or smurf by default, not to you.  I had to
   edit the resulting To: header by hand to address this
   response to you.  Why force extra work on others?

I know why you did it --- you subscribe to git list and otherwise you would get two copies.

That is _not_ a good excuse. That is how mailing lists work; either you filter the duplicates on your end, or you learn to live with it. Please don't force extra work on others.

I think the only header mucking of this kind that is acceptable is to remove yourself from CC: line when the mailing list you subscribe to is already on the CC: line.