Re: Git transition checklist

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 09:59:53 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> 7. What about the mail messages to emacs-diffs mailing list?  That
> >> should be working as well, and support pushes to non-trunk
> >> branches.
> > 
> > That is trivial in git.  Andreas can set it up in minutes.  I could too,
> > but I don't have write access to the repo hook files.
> 
> Savannah has support for Git commit mails (we use them for the `elpa'
> branch), but they kind of suck:
> - it's "one mail per push" instead of "one mail per commit"
>   (I can live with that, but it has annoying consequences).
> - the email's "Subject:" is useless (part of the problem is that
>   since there are several commits in it, you can't just take the first
>   line of *the* commit message, since there are several commit messages).
> See http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/elpa.git/config for the config
> we currently use.

Git now comes with an improved post-receive-mail hook called multimail

* https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/hooks/multimail
* https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail

It seems to create one mail per commit.

Regards
Rüdiger