From: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:08:45 GMT
Subject: RE: git notes from incoming patch
Message-ID: <02874ECE860811409154E81DA85FBB585746C272@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 12:14 PM
> To: Keller, Jacob E
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: git notes from incoming patch
> 
> "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > I am wondering whether it is possible to read from a format-patch input
> > and add notes when we generate the applied patch.
> 
> I would think post-applypatch hook is the right place to do this.
> The hook has access to the incoming message in $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply
> directory ('next' records the message number in the series, and then
> you have individual pieces of e-mails separated out into 0001, 0002,
> etc. you can read from), and "HEAD" already points at the result of
> applying the patch.
> 
> Peek 'post-applypatch' on my 'todo' branch for inspirations.

Excellent, I will investigate this.

Regards,
Jake