A mechanism for splitting large patches into manageable chunks which can be posted into multiple messages is needed.

Running the script for all diffs between adjacent revisions showed most of them were well under 4k. There was a hiccup around r1.163 where a truncated file appeared to have been committed.

To keep the size of the packets down, use Edit diffs and gzip the diff before base64'ing it.

Typical patch packet

=*=* CLAU BEGIN =*=*
Version: 0.1
Comment: For more information please join the clau_spec conference
File: newlist
Type: Conference List
Revision In: 1.850
Revision Out: 1.851
MD5 In: 67f3378769abd96f35e541b2d3634fde
MD5 Out: 0dd7039df9cd98fb5b154fdc990e14c5
MD5 Patch: 31c6e47a24d5fdf39cb626a56d22e4da
Date In: 2012-12-23T11:17:45
Date Out: 2013-01-07T10:36:38
Date Patch: 2013-02-28T17:33:55
Patch Type: Context
Patch Begin:
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Patch End:
MD5 Checksum: d7b3122c9af61de3c81e3bad0ee25d07
=*=* CLAU END =*=*