Re: [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: Fixed sending of many/huge changes/patches

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> writes:

> It seems to me that there is a size limit, after cutting down the patch
> to ~16K, sending started to work. I cut it twice, once by removing lines
> from the head and once from the bottom, in both cases at the size of
> around 16K I could send the patch.
>
> See also original report:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/274569
>
> Reported-by: Juston Li <juston.h.li@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  git-send-email.perl | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index e3ff44b..e907e0ea 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1365,7 +1365,11 @@ Message-Id: $message_id
>  		$smtp->mail( $raw_from ) or die $smtp->message;
>  		$smtp->to( @recipients ) or die $smtp->message;
>  		$smtp->data or die $smtp->message;
> -		$smtp->datasend("$header\n$message") or die $smtp->message;
> +		$smtp->datasend("$header\n") or die $smtp->message;
> +		my @lines = split /^/, $message;
> +		foreach my $line (@lines) {
> +			$smtp->datasend("$line") or die $smtp->message;
> +		}

Thanks.  One and a half comments.

 * If 16k is the limit, and smtp payload line limit is much much
   shorter than that, is it sensible to send data line by line?

 * Has this been reported to Net::Cmd::datasend() upstream?

>  		$smtp->dataend() or die $smtp->message;
>  		$smtp->code =~ /250|200/ or die "Failed to send $subject\n".$smtp->message;
>  	}