Re: [PATCH] Add Auto-Submitted header to post-receive-email

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2013, 00:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20130117004959.GD20620@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <258F0FE2-D014-4624-A1E2-721E51F0E12C@salk.edu>

Hi Chris,

Chris Hiestand wrote:

> Andy, do you have any thoughts on adding this email header to
> contrib/hooks/post-receive-email? This patch shouldn't cause problems for anyone
> with a sanely configured mail delivery agent, and the additional header is very
> useful in toggling auto responses.

I'm not Andy, but it sounds very sane to me.  So for what it's worth,
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Thanks, Jonathan

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> This conforms to RFC3834 and is useful in preventing eg
> vacation auto-responders from replying by default
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Hiestand <chiestand@salk.edu>
> ---
>  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> index b2171a0..0e5b72d 100755
> --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ generate_email_header()
>  	X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
>  	X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev
>  	X-Git-Newrev: $newrev
> +	Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
>  
>  	This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
>  	generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4