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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: mhagger@alum•mit.edu
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>,
	Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add a new email notification script to "contrib"
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:52:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqobndld4v.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342249182-5937-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> (mhagger@alum.mit.edu's message of "Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:59:42 +0200")

mhagger@alum•mit.edu writes:

> * One email per commit [1].  For each reference change, the script
>   first emits one email summarizing the reference change (including
>   one-line summaries of the new commits), then emits a separate email
>   for each new commit that was introduced, including patches.

I have a dirty hack to do that on my private repositories (instead of
sending mail on receive, the script runs as a cron job, does a "git
fetch" on each repo on my machine, and sends me patches for new commits
with "git send-email"). I had several problems with it:

* Binary content was sometimes embedded in the patch. It's cool that
  "git send-email" can base64-encode content when I send a patch to
  someone, but it's counter-productive when used for code review. So, I
  used "git format-patch --no-binary".

* Even with that, I sometimes had overly long lines (e.g. non-text files
  that were shown as a one long line, I don't remember exactly the
  use-case, probably postscript files or so) that were confusing my
  mailer. So, I added

    # Truncate long lines
    perl -pi -e 's/^(.{500}).*/$1 [...]/' $patches

  to my script to truncate them.

You probably want to test these cases, and allow (configurably) the user
to do some cleanup on patches before they are sent.

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-18  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-14  6:59 [RFC] Add a new email notification script to "contrib" mhagger
2012-07-14  9:46 ` Stefan Näwe
     [not found]   ` <CALUzUxoi-X2nTTFF7utJz2DOTDE8-s7QOgR=HmQAkOVkGY17BA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-14 12:03     ` Stefan Naewe
2012-07-15  4:38   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-15  7:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-15 22:45   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-16 15:57 ` Marc Branchaud
2012-07-16 16:38   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-16 16:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-16 16:48   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-16 17:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-16 19:05       ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-16 19:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-18  7:52 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2012-07-20 10:01 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-07 21:47   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-11-08  9:42     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-08 11:39       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-11-08 12:17         ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-08 15:38           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-11-22  7:32             ` Michael Haggerty
2012-11-08 16:24           ` Marc Branchaud
2012-11-08 16:37             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-11-08 16:46               ` Marc Branchaud
2012-11-08 16:03       ` Marc Branchaud
2012-11-22  7:27         ` Michael Haggerty

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