From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12481 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2008 12:16:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 12473 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Sep 2008 12:16:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.idnet.net.uk (HELO mail.idnet.net.uk) (212.69.36.63) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:15:54 +0000 Received: from [91.135.5.64] by mail.idnet.net.uk (GMS 15.01.3664/NU3963.00.7ca42f0c) with ESMTP id pouiemba for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:15:49 +0100 Subject: Re: How to submit a LARGE patch From: Jeremy Bennett Reply-To: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: References: <1221909745.2827.456.camel@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:16:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1221912949.2827.469.camel@thomas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AuthenticatedSender: jeremy.bennett.embecosm.com@idnet.net.uk X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-09/txt/msg00433.txt.bz2 On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 14:35 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > My own preference is to submit is as text, not as binary attachment. > Unless your mailer does all kinds of dirty tricks with text, such as > folding long lines etc., this makes reviewing the patch by far the > easiest. Thanks for the quick reply. I'm happy to submit as plain text, but the PNG & PDF versions of the image have to be binary (or uuencoded binary). > > > I've made some suggested changes to the GDB Internals manual, but since > > the change includes an image, the diff file is nearly 300k, when gzipped > > and uuencoded. > > How large it is before gzip? 500k. That's broken down as: 82k - changes to gdbint.texinfo source 48k - original image (SVG) 1k - text version of image (for info) 67k - PNG version of image (binary, for HTML) 78k - PDF version of image (binary, for PDF) 218k - EPS version of image (for DVI) gzip reduces it to 200k, uuencoding (as suggested in the CONTRIBUTE file) inflates it back to 300k. I can break down the patch into just the Texinfo change and then each image separately. Your further suggestions on this would be welcome. Thanks, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1202) 416955 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com