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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:18:20 -0800
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Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> writes:
>> 
>> > This changes the behaviour of post-receive-email when a list of recipients
>> > (separated by commas) is specified as hooks.mailinglist. With this modification,
>> > an individual mail is sent out for each recipient entry in the list, instead
>> > of sending a single mail with all the recipients in the "To: " field.
>> 
>> Why can that be an improvement?
>
> My use case is that I have a repository where I want to send
> commit messages to an "official" mailing list and to a private
> recipient list that might not want to be seen on the official
> mailing list.

Ah.  What you want is a capability to add Bcc:, not a misfeature to run
the log formatter repeatedly wasting cycles only to generate the same
message contents.