Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add submitGit patch-submission information

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 15, 2016, 02:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20160415020503.GB22112@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37qng721.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 03:27:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > +  - Create a pull request on https://github.com/git/git and
> > +    use https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/ to send it as a patch series
> > +    to the mailing list.  Note that the PR is just the place where your
> > +    patch is born - discussion of the patch should still take place on
> > +    the Git mailing list.
> 
> This is a tangent but I am wondering if you can do this _without_
> creating a pull request to that repository.  I have a watch on that
> repository and my notification gets unnecessarily large because of
> these pull requests that were made _only_ for submitGit.  Can't
> submitGit be taught to take a branch in a repository of the
> submitter as input, (instead of a pull request to that public
> repository)?

Yeah, I have noticed that, too. It creates a lot of noise in my notification feed (which I process by email), to the point that I'll probably un-watch git/git.

-Peff