From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:08:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git email submissions
Message-ID: <7vlkzk4a82.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <437B73E2.3080903@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> I would presume an email body would look like
>
> overall description of changes
> git log master..HEAD | git shortlog
> git diff master..HEAD | diffstat -p1
> git diff master..HEAD
> <pack file MIME attachment>

As Smurf commented, the delta data is sent twice if you sent a
pack of "^his mine" -- once as a textual diff and then the delta
data in the pack.  You can slightly do better than that.
Because you are sending the diff, the pack you send does not
have to include the post-image of patch application, and I
suspect your pack would not have to contain anything other than
commit objects.