Add a notice to the top of post-receive-email explaining that the script is no longer under active development and pointing the user to git-multimail. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- If you think this is premature or the wording is too strong; feel free to change or omit this patch. I think it's fine, but then I might be biased... contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index 0e5b72d..23d7783 100755 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -2,10 +2,19 @@ # # Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Parkins # -# An example hook script to mail out commit update information. This hook -# sends emails listing new revisions to the repository introduced by the -# change being reported. The rule is that (for branch updates) each commit -# will appear on one email and one email only. +# An example hook script to mail out commit update information. +# +# ***NOTICE***: This script is no longer under active development. It +# has been superseded by git-multimail, which is more capable and +# configurable and is largely backwards-compatible with this script; +# please see "contrib/hooks/multimail/". For instructions on how to +# migrate from post-receive-email to git-multimail, please see +# "README.migrate-from-post-receive-email" in that directory. +# +# This hook sends emails listing new revisions to the repository +# introduced by the change being reported. The rule is that (for +# branch updates) each commit will appear on one email and one email +# only. # # This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution # will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html