Re: [Announce] submitGit for patch submission (was "Diffing submodule does not yield complete logs")

From: "Junio C Hamano" <redacted>

Roberto Tyley [off-list ref] writes:

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Hello, I'm stepping up to do that work :) Or at least, I'm 
implementing a
one-way GitHub PR -> Mailing list tool, called submitGit:

https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/

Yay ;-)

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Here's what a user does:

* create a PR on https://github.com/git/git
* logs into https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/ with GitHub auth
* selects their PR on https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/git/git/pulls

Reasonable.

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* gets submitGit to email the PR as patches to themselves, in order 
to
check it looks ok

I can see you are trying to be careful by doing this, but I am not
sure if this step would actually help. Those who are not familiar
with Git development are not expected to know what is "ok" in their
original commit, and if they find bad formatting done by submitGit
(e.g. adds their PR message before the three-dash line instead of
after it), they cannot do much about it anyway.

I still think this is valuable for the spotting of the dumb mistakes we 
all make, and notice after the fact when we see the email in the hard 
light of day. There will still be poor commit messages and the like, but 
at least the raw content is more likely to be as the author desired.

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* when they're ready, get submitGit to send it to the mailing list on
their behalf

Nice.

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All discussion of the patch *stays* on the mailing list

Can you identify a reroll of an earlier submission?  If you can use
the in-reply-to and make it a follow-up to the previous round, that
would be great.
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Philip