From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Wiberg Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] git-send-email --expand-aliases Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20091123221628.GE26810@ldl.fc.hp.com> <7v6390sqhz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20091124004554.GA27643@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Chiang , Catalin Marinas X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 24 08:12:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCpZZ-0007Yt-EY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758030AbZKXHMO convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:12:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758011AbZKXHMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:12:14 -0500 Received: from mail1.space2u.com ([62.20.1.135]:41016 "EHLO mail1.space2u.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758006AbZKXHMN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:12:13 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com (mail-bw0-f223.google.com [209.85.218.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail1.space2u.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nAO7CB16030300 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:12:11 +0100 Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so6023120bwz.29 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.3.219 with SMTP id 27mr5796800bko.127.1259046737419; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:12:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091124004554.GA27643@ldl.fc.hp.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: > * Junio C Hamano : > > > If you are changing StGit to call git-send-email anyway, why not > > arrange stgit to call git-send-email to send the message out > > instead, instead of sending messages on its own? > > Yeah, I thought about that as I was poking around further in StGit > to figure out how it would be calling git-send-email. ;) > > > I imagine the internal implementation of stg mail would work > > something like: > > > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 prepare messages to send out > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 call git-send-email and have it send them > > > > What am I missing? > > My lack of familiarity with StGit internals. ;) > > Your suggestion is much better. I'll take a closer look at StGit and > see how feasible it is. > > Unless Catalin has strong objections? I think that sounds like a splendid idea. It would be interesting to see just how thin a wrapper around git send-email (and format-patch) stg mail could become, without sacrificing features anyone actually uses. The main complication could be stg mail's templates. Catalin, how wedded are you to those? ;-) --=20 Karl Wiberg, kha@treskal.com subrabbit.wordpress.com www.treskal.com/kalle