From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:49:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] post-receive-email: do not call sendmail if no mail was generated
Message-ID: <7v4ordw1hg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090908205935.GB3858@lars.home.noschinski.de>

Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-2@usenet.noschinski.de> writes:

> Actually, there are a two cases in the case statement before, where
> generate_email would return:
>
>     refs/remotes/*,commit)
>         # tracking branch
>         refname_type="tracking branch"
>         short_refname=${refname##refs/remotes/}
>         echo >&2 "*** Push-update of tracking branch, $refname"
>         echo >&2 "***  - no email generated."
>         exit 0
>         ;;
>     *)
>         # Anything else (is there anything else?)
>         echo >&2 "*** Unknown type of update to $refname ($rev_type)"
>         echo >&2 "***  - no email generated"
>         exit 1
>         ;;

Ok, that justifies the existence of the patch.