Re: [RFC] Automagic patch merge ack emails

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Dec 22, 2008, 20:59 UTC
Message-ID: <200812221459.30728.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <2d460de70812220607j7f218ee3r7722bc8147a3dab4@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 2008 December 22 08:07:07 Richard Hartmann wrote:

> I poked around the docs, but I could not find any option to have git
> send email to people who signed off a patch when it's merged.

There's not one, since something that that should probably be done in a hook. Maybe the update hook?

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> I only realized the two patches I sent were merged because they were
> listed in the RC changelog summary and would have followed up my patch
> email in a about a week, asking about its status.
>
> Does anyone else think this is useful?

I think it would be nice to get a notification whenever Junio pushes commits to 'master' or 'maint' in git.git if I've signed off on one of the commits. I don't think everyone would though so the hook would need to be maintained indefinitely (updating the email blacklist, etc.).

It would probably be a nice hook to have as an example, I guess.

> Does anyone else think it should 
> make it into main so it can be enabled via config, not via a hook that
> needs to be imported into each and every repo?

Definitely not. It's not that difficult to add a hook to the repositories that need it, and I think the majority of repositories will be private and not need it.

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