[Checkins] Better Github commit emails

Stephan Richter stephan.richter at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 07:10:51 UTC 2013


On Monday, February 25, 2013 09:01:02 AM Marius Gedminas wrote:
> I'm not very happy with the commit emails we get from Github:
> 
> * the From field doesn't show the author's name, all we get to see is an
>   uninformative "Github"
> * there's no inline diff
> * multiple commits are squashed into a single email

I could not agree more. I could fix the sender with some mailing list juggling 
or requiring all committers to use the same E-mail as the GitHub log in.

But still, not getting diffs in E-mails is just terrible. What do other people 
do?

Regards,
Stephan
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