On Jan 26, 2014 9:39 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <sebastic@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> As you may have read in Misc Developer News (#34), the git-commit-notice
> script on Alioth was updated to use git-multimail which generates more
> useful emails.
>
> I'd like to switch the Debian GIS git repositories to use this instead
> of our custom copy of git-commit-notice. I'm not sure why we have a
> custom git-commit-notice at all, it doesn't appear to have Debian GIS
> specific changes.
>
> To start using the new git-commit-notice it's sufficient to update the
> post-receive hook to exec /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice instead of
> /git/pkg-grass/git-commit-notice. The git configuration is automatically
> migrated from hooks.* to multimailhook.*.
>
> The post-receive hook is automatically created for new git repositories
> by the setup-repository script, which needs to be updated to use
> /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice instead too.
>
> To get an impression of the emails the git-commit-notice generates you
> can view the pkg-perl-cvs-commits list archive, the Debian Perl team has
> been using git-multimail for some time already:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-cvs-commits/2014-January/thread.html
>
> I've experimented with the new git-commit-notice by using it for the
> package_template git repository. The commit emails are now nicely
> threaded, and the commit summary is a nice addition. See:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2014-January/017813.html
>
> If there a no objections, I'll update the setup-repository script to use
> /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice for new git repositories and update the
> existing post-receive hooks to use the new script as well.
I am trying to improve my packaging skills also by analyzing others changes from these messages. +1 from me to any readability improvements .
>
> The announcement of the new git-commit-notice is included below.
>
> >From Misc Developer News (#34):
>
> Email notifications for git commits on git.debian.org
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Many projects rely on the git-commit-notice[1] script provided on
> git.debian.org to send mail notifications of the activity of the git
> repositories hosted there. Up to now, this script was based on (a very
> old copy of) the "post-receive-email" contrib script from Git
> upstream. I recently updated it and it's now based on git-multimail[2]
> which generates more useful mails (with better subjects, with commit
> ordering per push, with proper support of merge, etc.). I have tweaked
> the script to auto-migrate the old git configuration settings so most
> of you shouldn't have anything to do but you might want to
> review/tweak the generated configuration (multimailhook.* git config
> settings) and drop the old one (hooks.* git config settings).
>
> -- Raphaël Hertzog
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#Commit_mails_with_diff
> [2] https://github.com/mhagger/git-multimail/
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00007.html
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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