Re: Disable emacs-diffs mails for scratch branches

[David Engster]

Stefan Monnier writes:
>> Subject says it all. Could we please do that? I think it's pretty normal
>> for scratch-Branches being deleted and pushed anew, and for large
>> branches like cedet-merge or cedet-tests this needlessly creates
>> hundreds of mails each time.
>
> I agree that those 300 emails dumps are more annoying than useful.
> But FWIW, I see two problems with your suggestion:
> 1- I don't know how to do it.

We'd have to adapt the post-receive hook, or whatever else is triggering
the mails.

> 2- I do find it very useful to see commits on scratch branches when
>    those branches are used for gradual development (e.g. the byte-switch
>    branch).

How about simply not naming those branches with the 'scratch' prefix,
then?  I was under the impression that 'scratch' means "can be
force-pushed/deleted any time, don't base your work onto it".

-David