Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: get description from repo.git/config

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

More precisely: you should have a look at git-multimail (in directory
contrib/, in branch for now pu/, or from
https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail) before spending time on
post-receive-email.

Oh, by the way, is this a vote of confidence in that topic, hinting
that we would want to advance it to 'next'?

I definitely would like to see git-multimail in contrib/, and to have it
considered as "the recommended way to send emails from a hook". It does
all the old script did, and much more.

post-receive-email can stay for people who don't have Python on their
servers, or for existing users who don't want to migrate.

My preference would go for a subtree merge to keep the existing history
(that would mean extracting a subdirectory of git-multimail's tree
before merging it to git.git).

As it is only adding a new script to contrib/, it could be argued
that we could even push it to 1.8.3-rc1,

OTOH, it's not urgent, people can already use git-multimail by taking it
from GitHub.

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Matthieu Moy
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