[kgb-maintainers] Bug#748397: merging branches floods channels

[Joey Hess]

Source: kgb-bot
Version: 1.31-1
Severity: normal

Suppose I am developing on branch A, pushing as I go, with kgb
mentioning each change on IRC. After a long time, I reach a point where
I merge A into branch B. When I push B, kgb will flood IRC with all the
commits, which it has already mentioned before when they were made on A.

I just had kgb want to flood a channel with 2 months worth of commits,
totaling 570 commits, when I updated a backport. I had to kill the bot
to avoid the channel being unusable for a long time.

I think the bot should either avoid mentioning commits that it's
mentioned before, even if they're on a new branch now, or it should
detect when it's been fed a lot of commits to the same branch and
display a shortened message like "commit foo and 569 more".

-- 
see shy jo
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