Re: [RFC] git email submissions

Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] writes:

I would presume an email body would look like

overall description of changes
git log master..HEAD | git shortlog
git diff master..HEAD | diffstat -p1
git diff master..HEAD
<pack file MIME attachment>

As Smurf commented, the delta data is sent twice if you sent a
pack of "^his mine" -- once as a textual diff and then the delta
data in the pack.  You can slightly do better than that.
Because you are sending the diff, the pack you send does not
have to include the post-image of patch application, and I
suspect your pack would not have to contain anything other than
commit objects.