Re: [PATCH RFC] git-send-email --expand-aliases

From: Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Nov 24, 2009, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID: <b8197bcb0911232312l251dfbc9va671388cfb7fe57b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091124004554.GA27643@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:

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> * Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>
> > If you are changing StGit to call git-send-email anyway, why not
> > arrange stgit to call git-send-email to send the message out
> > instead, instead of sending messages on its own?
>
> Yeah, I thought about that as I was poking around further in StGit
> to figure out how it would be calling git-send-email. ;)
>
> > I imagine the internal implementation of stg mail would work
> > something like:
> >
> >     prepare messages to send out
> >     call git-send-email and have it send them
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> My lack of familiarity with StGit internals. ;)
>
> Your suggestion is much better. I'll take a closer look at StGit and
> see how feasible it is.
>
> Unless Catalin has strong objections?

I think that sounds like a splendid idea. It would be interesting to see just how thin a wrapper around git send-email (and format-patch) stg mail could become, without sacrificing features anyone actually uses. The main complication could be stg mail's templates.

Catalin, how wedded are you to those? ;-)

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