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

> Hi Roberto,
>
> On 2015-05-22 11:42, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> On 2015-05-22 10:33, Roberto Tyley wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 19 May 2015, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Robert Dailey
>>>> <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > How do you send your patches inline?
>>> [snip]
>>>> This workflow discussion was a topic at the GitMerge2015 
>>>> conference,
>>>> and there are essentially 2 groups, those who know how to send 
>>>> email
>>>> and those who complain about it. A solution was agreed on by nearly 
>>>> all
>>>> of the contributors. It would be awesome to have a git-to-email 
>>>> proxy,
>>>> such that you could do a git push <proxy> 
>>>> master:refs/for/mailinglist
>>>> and this proxy would convert the push into sending patch series to 
>>>> the
>>>> mailing list. It could even convert the following discussion back 
>>>> into
>>>> comments (on Github?) but as a first step we'd want to try out a 
>>>> one
>>>> way proxy.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately nobody stepped up to actually do the work, yet :(
>>>
>>>
>>> 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/
>>
>> Wow!!!
>>
>> I will make sure to test it with a couple of patches I want to submit 
>> anyway.
>
> I just tried this with https://github.com/git/git/pull/139 and would 
> like to tell you about two wishes I had immediately:
>
> - If the author of a patch I am submitting is not myself, could 
> submitGit maybe add that `From: ` line at the top of the mail?
> - The patch series is sent without a cover letter, but it would be 
> *really* great if a path series consisting of more than one patch 
> could have the initial comment of the Pull Request as a cover letter, 
> with the link to the original Pull Request at the bottom? This would 
> also be the mail to use in the "In-reply-yo" header instead of the 
> first patch.
>
> Thanks so much!
> Dscho