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

On 07/01/2013 11:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

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My understanding is that we are waiting on two things:

1. Consensus from the community.  I would characterize the feedback on
the mailing list as limited in quantity but strongly positive [1-4] and
I think that most/all of the wishes for post-receive-email features that
were originally omitted from git-multimail have been implemented in the
current version.  Some of the mailing list feedback was about earlier
versions.  Do you want people to give feedback specifically about the
current version?

2. For me to figure out what part of the git-multimail history I think
should be included in the Git project, do any necessary repository
rewriting, and submit a pull request to you.  The fact that I haven't
gotten to this is due to the fact that I've been busy getting git-imerge
[5] ready to present at GitMerge.

Ping, now GitMerge is over?

Yes, and its reverberations are slowly getting under control, too :-)

No need to hurry, but just to make sure this didn't disappear from
everybody's radar.

I definitely haven't forgotten it.  I wasn't so happy with the script's
Python API, and was holding off on the final submission to avoid casting
the old way in stone.  But I finally had some time over the last two
weekends to convert to what I think is a more sensible system [1].  (I
also improved the test coverage considerably.)

Feedback would be very welcome, especially from people who have tried
out the old Python API.  I am even willing to personally help people
adapt to the new API, as it would help me verify that real-life
customizations are now indeed easier.  (Ævar, any news?)

This week I want to convert $WORK to the new version; after that I would
feel comfortable submitting to Git contrib.

(By the way, the changes don't affect how the script can be configured
via "git config" settings, or its backwards compatibility with
post-receive-email.  The improvements are all to the Python API.)

I have a logistical question: git-multimail doesn't have its own mailing
list, and GitHub doesn't offer one.  I was thinking about setting up a
Google group, but a few people at GitMerge suggested that I instead
direct discussion of git-multimail to the main Git mailing list.  I
would slightly prefer that, but I would first like to make sure that the
extra traffic (probably not much) would be welcome on the Git mailing list.

Michael

[1] "master" branch at https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail

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