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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:01:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpwkq0wp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1L0JjD-00ByqG-1I@intern.SerNet.DE> (Michael Adam's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:42:06 +0100")

Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> writes:

> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Michael Adam schrieb:
>> > 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.
>> 
>> I don't think this is well-behaved:
> ...
> Your concerns are surely valid.
> Maybe it would be useful to make this optional?

What benefit could anybody possibly get by making this optional?

If you do not want to show multiple names on To: header to the mail
recipients, there already is a well-known solution, and it is called
(surprise!) mailing list ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 16:50 [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients Michael Adam
2008-11-12 17:08 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-11-12 17:42   ` Michael Adam
2008-11-12 18:01     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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