Re: git-send-mail in sh

From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Date: Nov 25, 2005, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20051125101209.GA8868@puritan.petwork>
In-Reply-To: <4386DD45.6030308@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Finally giving up on git-send-email (I won't install the 6 perl-modules 
> it requires and I don't know perl enough to remove the need for them), I 
> hacked up a replacement in sh. It's more aptly named as well. ;)

> It's better than the perl version because;
> 1. It doesn't have any requirements other than normal unix-commands and 
> "mail" being in the path.
> 2. It can generate the patches on the fly, using git-format-patch.

Great!

> It's worse than the perl version because;
> 1. It doesn't thread the patch-series (which I personally prefer anyway 
> since it's easier to follow a thread on a particular patch that way).

Not so great. Why is it so much more difficult to have one more level of nesting? It's annoying, but it's a lot less annoying than having 19 separate threads that are all, in fact, related to each other.

> 2. The patches sent within the same second arrive in random order.

Perhaps adding a 'sleep 1' would help? (The delay may be unacceptable to some people, though.)

        nikolai

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