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From: |
Clément Lassieur |
Subject: |
[bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes. |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:11:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>> I don't think there is a need for `--to` automation in Guix repo because
>> it's something the user can automate in their own ~/.gitconfig (with
>> `includeIf`[0]).
>
> I often have single patches, or with series I need to send the cover
> letter first; just writing 'git send-email -1' is shorter
> than 'git send-email --to=guix-patches@gnu.org -1' :-).
Well, you can use a bash alias, a git send-email wrapper, your own
.gitconfig as I said... There are a lot of solutions.
> I also often use patman (info "(u-boot) Patman patch manager") and
> there's no way to specify a --to from the command line (you use
> Series-to: NNNNN@debbugs.gnu.org as a git trailer after having received
> it for a cover letter), which would make things slightly more
> annoying...
Then you can also write "Series-to: guix-patches@gnu.org" as trailer for
the first patch and then change.
Or you can use git send-email --to for the first patch, and patman for
the remaining ones.
>> [0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#_conditional_includes
>
> ... by having to configure this in a way that matches all my Guix
> worktrees spread around :-).
If all your Guix worktrees are in the same directory, it's
straightforward. Otherwise, it's just one line per git repository.
Something that's surely not a problem for you.
> I guess what I'm saying is that it provides value for me, and I'd expect
> for others, although I can see how it could generate surprise when you
> initially get your 'get send-email' foo wrong.
I'm sure it provides value for you but I don't think it does for others:
all I see is that it provides confusion.
We want a software, and tools, that are simple to use and to understand.
Please don't add too much things that are hard to maintain, hard to
understand, and with unexpected defaults.
Git send-email is used by a lot of projects apart from Guix. And
newcomers often come from those projects, they don't expect weird
defaults and weird customizations.
> Perhaps we should more prominently mention that 'mumi send-email' should
> be used for first timers, as it's less likely to get things wrong using
> it?
I think git send-email is easy to use and to understand (if people don't
modify its default behavior).
Thanks,
Clément
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., (continued)
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/18
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Clément Lassieur, 2023/10/19
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/19
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Clément Lassieur, 2023/10/20
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Simon Tournier, 2023/10/20
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/20
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Clément Lassieur, 2023/10/22
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/22
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Simon Tournier, 2023/10/23
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/23
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes.,
Clément Lassieur <=
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Simon Tournier, 2023/10/26
- bug#66618: [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Clément Lassieur, 2023/10/26
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Simon Tournier, 2023/10/23
- [bug#66618] [PATCH] etc: gitconfig: Remove the default email address to avoid mistakes., Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/10/23