From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC] git email submissions Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:01:06 -0500 Message-ID: <437B73E2.3080903@pobox.com> References: <437B4472.1080401@pobox.com> <437B7213.2020406@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 16 19:05:49 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcRay-0004oc-QJ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:01:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030293AbVKPSBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:01:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030294AbVKPSBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:01:17 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:56757 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030293AbVKPSBQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:01:16 -0500 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EcRao-0004UA-AY; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:01:11 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <437B7213.2020406@zytor.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>> For people without _any_ hosting, it would be nice to give them a >>> method to >>> submit some git changes via email. >> >> >> Well, as long as you don't expect me to take those things.. >> >> BK had it with "bk send"/"bk receive", I used it a couple of times and >> refuse to do it again. >> > > Personally I think it would be nice if you could do an augmented > patchset so that the end result is the same (with the same SHA1 IDs) as > if one had merged a pull, while still being a human-readable patchset. > The advantage with that is that once merged it'll do the right thing on > the author's end. I think that's pretty much my answer to Jeff's > question :) Agreed. Though as a disclaimer to Linus and others, I don't plan to use this in my own submissions to Linus. Just thinking it would be a nice thing to have, because there are definitely users out there who don't (for whatever reason) have git-capable hosting. I would presume an email body would look like overall description of changes git log master..HEAD | git shortlog git diff master..HEAD | diffstat -p1 git diff master..HEAD Smarter programs would send the overall description and pack file as "[patch 0/N]", and then post the for-review patches in separate emails as "[patch M/N]". Jeff