From: Nikolai Weibull Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:12:09 GMT Subject: Re: git-send-mail in sh 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 -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}