[darcs-users] suggestion: each push should identify its target repo internally

[Zack Brown]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:55:53AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> 
> > I think a simple way to do it would be to just add a clear email header
> > to each push, indicating the precise repository. That way the procmail
> > recipe can be simple, and the recipient can have multiple branches of
> > the same project with similar patch sets.
> > 
> > Since we're only talking about adding an email header, there's no chance
> > it could break compatibility.
> 
> Yeah, that would be the way to do it.  We could either use the subject, or
> add a special header (e.g. DarcsRepository: helloworld).  I could go either
> way.  Subject is a bit appealling, as it would make the push emails a bit
> easier to identify in a mailbox, but perhaps we'd like to set up the
> subject based on the names of the patches pushed, and have a separate field
> for the repo identity.

Maybe something like:

Subject: [PUSH] name of the patch
DarcsRepository: repo name

or maybe:

Subject: [PUSH reponame] name of the patch

but the latter might result in really long subject lines

Be well,
Zack

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Zack Brown