Re: [ding-cvslog-owner@lists.math.uh.edu] Stalled post to ding-cvslog

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:46:32 +0100 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote: 

SJ> On 2010-11-09 22:52 +0100, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:28:49 +0100 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote: 
>> 
SJ> On 2010-11-09 20:08 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>>> Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> There's one:
>>>>> 
>>>>> % git show --pretty=full 00cd64463c5cf16d6aa0611c7957cfe94e6d5b0d | head -3
>>>>> commit 00cd64463c5cf16d6aa0611c7957cfe94e6d5b0d
>>>>> Author: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
>>>>> Commit: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>>>> 
>>>> Right.  But the Commit line wasn't even in the mail, which makes it
>>>> rather difficult for the mailing list software to use that.  :-)
>> 
SJ> Correct, that's why I proposed to change the post-receive script (which
SJ> writes and sends the mail) so that it uses the "Commit:" address for
SJ> constructing the "From:" field in the mail.  Sorry if that was unclear.
>> 
>> The script is in the Git repo under etc/post-receive.  Can you suggest a patch?

SJ> The following should work (untested, though):
SJ> diff --git a/etc/post-receive b/etc/post-receive
SJ> index 421db3e..c77d6df 100755
SJ> --- a/etc/post-receive
SJ> +++ b/etc/post-receive
SJ> @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
SJ>  # modified: 2010-09-01 and on by tzz@lifelogs.com
 
SJ> -# Use the email address of the author of the last commit.
SJ> -export USER_EMAIL=$(git log -1 --format=format:%ae HEAD)
SJ> -export USER_NAME=$(git log -1 --format=format:%an HEAD)
SJ> +# Use the email address of the committer of the last commit.
SJ> +export USER_EMAIL=$(git log -1 --format=format:%ce HEAD)
SJ> +export USER_NAME=$(git log -1 --format=format:%cn HEAD)
 
SJ>  # the remainder is the standard git-core post-receive-email with some changes:

Sorry it took so long.  I installed your change (which Julien comitted
yesterday) on the Git server.

Ted