Git repository mail notifications

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> From what I can see the mythtv guys are using the same mail script :)
>
> Except that they use the subject line unaltered, where I made some changes to
> it based on faulty assumptions. The last part of their subject line is the
> untruncated version of our current "svn_last". It's the output of the command
> "git describe", which tries to, well, describe a git commit as well as
> possible, or in the words of the git help describe command:
>
> "The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. If the
> tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. Otherwise, it suffixes
> the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object
> and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit."
>
> I understand this better now. I'll reorder the subject line again and stop
> truncating the output of git describe. IMO that info actually does make sense.

The more recent mailings subject lines look better. I guess we don't
need the 'by ...' since the mail comes from the developer.

> Geert

-derek

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