Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] - extend git request-pull to send email

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2011, 22:59 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=kXJF_rYGMyh1gj49J7fh-ZxD7Bo8o_ELHb-2M@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:

> Specifying the "--to user@server.com" could be a trigger for this functionality.
> All additional parameters from git send-mail should be available.
>
> What do you think?

Horrible ;-).

If this were not about request-pull but some other command that produces a summary of recent changes you have, which you might want to distribute to people who are involved in the project (e.g. Meta/cook), it might make sense to have "generate and then e-mail" feature inside the command, because such a command needs to inspect the history and grab various kinds of information anyway, and adding "people involved" to the mix might make sense.

But you are talking about request-pull, which is by design is meant to be sent to a single recipient. If the user has to say --to user@example.com, how is it different from piping the output to "| mail to@example.com"?