On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 7:03 AM Matthieu Moy <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Thu, Jun 10 2021, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > > The multimail project is developed independently and has its own project > > > page. Traditionally, we shipped a copy in contrib/. > > > > > However, such a copy is prone to become stale, and users are much better > > > served to be directed to the actual project instead. > > > > Let's CC its maintainer / other people who've actively contributed to > > it. I've taken the liberty to do that. > > Thanks. I only authored ~2% of the commits in git-multimail, compared to Matthieu's ~55% and Michael's ~32%. So I'm not sure my opinion should matter, even if I had a strong opinion. And I don't have a strong opinion. git-multimail was awesome and very helpful for a few years, but it did everything I needed as of 2015 and I didn't really contribute further because it was perfect for my needs by that point. (Well, okay, I did apparently contribute 563c41ed05ae (Ficks a phew simpul speling erors., 2019-11-04) after 2015, but those were just typo fixes in comments, not particularly important.) Also, back when I did use it, I always used the version from upstream rather than the copy from git. > > Having written a system in the past that made use of git-multimail.py > > (and sourced it from git.git's copy) I'd think a better direction would > > be to keep this and modify githooks(5) to actively recommend it over the > > older and less featureful post-receive-email script. Recommending git-multimail over the existing post-receive-email script makes a lot of sense; git-multimail is much, much better. > I'm all for recommending it in githooks, but this can be done by pointing > to GitHub's URL instead of a local path. Actually the sample script could > look like > > # Fetch git-multimail.py from https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail/ > # adapt and uncomment the following line: > #exec /path/to/git_multimail.py This seems like a good idea.
