Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: get description from repo.git/config

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 7, 2013, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq61yuol7t.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4hilt28.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> I have a mildly strong suspicion that a better approach might be to:
>
>  - Copy the current stable snapshot to the contrib/ area, [...]
>
>  - Keep the development at your GitHub repository, [...]
>
>  - Update what is in contrib/ in my tree with a stable snapshot,
>    every once in a while [...]

I think this is not very different from

- merge the current version in the contrib/ area

- keep the development at the GitHub repository

- merge the GitHub repository into the git.git once in a while

(which is essentially what happens with gitk and git-gui as far as I understood)

I tend to prefer the "merge" approach to the "copy files from one repo to another", even if git_multimail is never edited directly from git.git. I find it conceptually cleaner, and it gives a bit more flexibility (e.g. if someone accidentally commits in git.git's repository, the commit would also be valid wrt git_multimail's GitHub repo, and can serve as a pull request).

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/