Garbage emails and reviewboard commit hooks

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 16 June 2012 Jun, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> Hi,
> Do you have any idea how to prevent receiving emails like this one?
> (Git commit ..... by .... on behalf of ....)
> It seems that merging commits to a new branch generates copy of commit email.
> 

This only happens if someone rebases their branch on master. It's just a mistake. Whereever people work, mistakes will happen, especially with tools like git.

It's also pretty simple for you to filter out -- just check for that pattern you noted above.

> This is getting quite annoying, and generates garbage. Also,
> reviewboard is getting similarly polluted if a commit used REVIEW:
> field, see e.g. commit hooks at
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105161/

Yeah... Shit happens.

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