Re: git-feed-mail-list.sh

David Woodhouse [off-list ref] writes:

# $FROM specifies the From: header used in the mails. It'll default
# to GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL if that exists, or to `whoami`@`hostname`

I am not sure if this part is tested..

# Unless configured otherwise, just cat it instead of mailing.
if [ -z "$FROM" ]; then
    if [ -z "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" ]; then 
	FROM="$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"
    else
	FROM=`whoami`@`hostname`
    fi
fi

Maybe you meant 'if test -n "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL"' here?

# takes an object and generates the object's parent(s)
createmail () {
    local commit

If you were to do bashism local, don't you want to also localize
other variables like key, SUBHEX, NEWSUB,...?

It may make sense to enhance format-patch to do the Q encoding,
so that you do not have to do this part by hand...

	git-diff -B $parent $commit > $TMPCM
	diffstat -p1 $TMPCM 2>/dev/null

With GIT 1.3.0 and later:

	git diff --patch-with-stat $parent..$commit

would be simpler here.

base=$(git-rev-parse $1)

if [ -z $2 ]; then
    lastmail=`cat $MAILTAG`
else
    lastmail=$(git-rev-parse $2)
fi

lastmail=`git rev-parse --default "$MAILTAG" ${2+"$2"}`

if [ -z $1 ]; then
    base=$(git-rev-parse HEAD) || exit 1
else
    base=$(git-rev-parse $1) || exit 1
fi

I am not sure if earlier base=$(git-rev-parse $1) is needed if
you do this here...