Re: git-feed-mail-list.sh

["Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@gmail.com>]

On 5/9/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is there a way to track merge like that?
>
> The command line you quoted shows the relevant information for
> people who want to know what happened in that merge.
>
> Namely:
>
>  * it always shows the header and the message
>
>  * it shows the changes that are not trivial (i.e. merge parents
>    have overlapping different versions and manual resolution
>    resulted in something different from either parents).
>
> It is not a replacement for format-patch, but I think the commit
> mailing list is not for machines to receive and apply the
> received patches, but for humans to inspect, so it would be more
> suitable than a naive alternative of showing diff from all
> parents concatenated together.

That's right. And don't want to do that.

But I would like to send an email after merge to inform people that:

o tree ``a'' and ``b'' have been merged.
o made by John Doe at a time
o show a diffstat.
o show a --short-log=oneline from merge base.

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