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Re: [RFC] git email submissions

From
HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2005, 17:53 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>For people without _any_ hosting, it would be nice to give them a method to
>>submit some git changes via email.
> 
> Well, as long as you don't expect me to take those things..
> 
> BK had it with "bk send"/"bk receive", I used it a couple of times and 
> refuse to do it again.
>

Personally I think it would be nice if you could do an augmented patchset so that the end result is the same (with the same SHA1 IDs) as if one had merged a pull, while still being a human-readable patchset. The advantage with that is that once merged it'll do the right thing on the author's end. I think that's pretty much my answer to Jeff's question :)

	-hpa
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  1. Jeff GarzikNov 16, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisNov 16, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 16, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinNov 16, 2005
  5. Jeff GarzikNov 16, 2005
  6. Matthias UrlichsNov 16, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2005
  8. Martin LanghoffNov 17, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinNov 17, 2005

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