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[Jérôme Marant]

Quoting Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>:

> Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> writes:
>
> >> Even with emacs, the autofiles.dpatch is over 700K (though the diffs
> >> may be small after the initial submission), and if we were to ever
> >> store the upstream source in baz, importing a new upstream version
> >> would generate extremely large commit emails.
> >
> > 700K? How can it be that big?
>
> You'll have to ask the autoconf people ;>  There are only two files in
> the diff, aclocal.m4 (which goes away), and configure.  The latter is
> over 95% of the diff.

I know the configure is huge. But I'm surprised 'diff' does not work
well with it. After all, there are not many changes.

> >> to the commit hook.
> >
> > Yes, why not.
>
> OK.  Is 1000 lines a reasonable length?

Yes, it is.

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Jérôme Marant