Subject: Re: [PATCH] multimail: stop shipping a copy

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 01:00:25 +0900

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
>
> The multimail project is developed independently and has its own project
> page. Traditionally, we shipped a copy in contrib/.
>
> However, such a copy is prone to become stale, and users are much better
> served to be directed to the actual project instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
> ---

FWIW, the upstream hasn't seen any activity since early November
2019.  I'm pinging Matthieu just in case, but I do not expect
anybody would object this move.

The fewer files we need to worry about, the better ;-)

>     Stop shipping a (potentially stale) copy of multimail
>     
>     The project is maintained elsewhere.
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-977%2Fdscho%2Fstub-out-contrib-multimail-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-977/dscho/stub-out-contrib-multimail-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/977
>
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES               |  285 --
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/CONTRIBUTING.rst      |   60 -
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/README.Git            |   12 +-
>  .../README.migrate-from-post-receive-email    |  145 -
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/README.rst            |  774 ---
>  .../multimail/doc/customizing-emails.rst      |   56 -
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/gerrit.rst        |   56 -
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/gitolite.rst      |  118 -
>  .../hooks/multimail/doc/troubleshooting.rst   |   78 -
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py      | 4346 -----------------
>  .../hooks/multimail/migrate-mailhook-config   |  274 --
>  contrib/hooks/multimail/post-receive.example  |  101 -
>  12 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6303 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/CHANGES
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/CONTRIBUTING.rst
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/README.migrate-from-post-receive-email
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/README.rst
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/customizing-emails.rst
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/gerrit.rst
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/gitolite.rst
>  delete mode 100644 contrib/hooks/multimail/doc/troubleshooting.rst
>  delete mode 100755 contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py
>  delete mode 100755 contrib/hooks/multimail/migrate-mailhook-config
>  delete mode 100755 contrib/hooks/multimail/post-receive.example