From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 07:49:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: get description from repo.git/config Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vwqrbmh4d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> More precisely: you should have a look at git-multimail (in directory >> contrib/, in branch for now pu/, or from >> https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail) before spending time on >> post-receive-email. > > Oh, by the way, is this a vote of confidence in that topic, hinting > that we would want to advance it to 'next'? I definitely would like to see git-multimail in contrib/, and to have it considered as "the recommended way to send emails from a hook". It does all the old script did, and much more. post-receive-email can stay for people who don't have Python on their servers, or for existing users who don't want to migrate. My preference would go for a subtree merge to keep the existing history (that would mean extracting a subdirectory of git-multimail's tree before merging it to git.git). > As it is only adding a new script to contrib/, it could be argued > that we could even push it to 1.8.3-rc1, OTOH, it's not urgent, people can already use git-multimail by taking it from GitHub. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/