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Re: [RFC] git email submissions

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 16, 2005, 14:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20051116145100.GY30496@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<437B4472.1080401@pobox.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:38:42PM CET, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said that...

> For people without _any_ hosting, it would be nice to give them a method 
> to submit some git changes via email.

What kind of people have no hosting whatsoever? There is plenty of free web hosting sites, and that should be enough...?

> - is this all pointless, since the submittor could just email patches? 
> [IMO no, git trees are better merges than emailed patches]

Couldn't you just look at the applies-to string of the first patch in the series, branch up from that commit, and at the end of the series do the merge?

No special tool required, just a bit smarter applier.
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Message 2 of 9 in “[RFC] git email submissions”
  1. Jeff GarzikNov 16, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisNov 16, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 16, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinNov 16, 2005
  5. Jeff GarzikNov 16, 2005
  6. Matthias UrlichsNov 16, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2005
  8. Martin LanghoffNov 17, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinNov 17, 2005

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