-git-multimail Version 1.1.1
-===========================
+git-multimail 1.3.1
+===================
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+ [git] 07/08: Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'
+ [git] 08/08: Git 1.7.11-rc2
- Each commit appears in exactly one commit email, the first time
- that it is pushed to the repository. If a commit is later merged
- into another branch, then a one-line summary of the commit is
- included in the reference change email (as usual), but no
- additional commit email is generated.
+ By default, each commit appears in exactly one commit email, the
+ first time that it is pushed to the repository. If a commit is later
+ merged into another branch, then a one-line summary of the commit
+ is included in the reference change email (as usual), but no
+ additional commit email is generated. See
+ `multimailhook.refFilter(Inclusion|Exclusion|DoSend|DontSend)Regex`
+ below to configure which branches and tags are watched by the hook.
By default, reference change emails have their "Reply-To" field set
to the person who pushed the change, and commit emails have their
------------
* Python 2.x, version 2.4 or later. No non-standard Python modules
- are required. git-multimail does *not* currently work with Python
- 3.x.
-
- The example scripts invoke Python using the following shebang line
- (following PEP 394 [1]_)::
-
- #! /usr/bin/env python2
-
- If your system's Python2 interpreter is not in your PATH or is not
- called ``python2``, you can change the lines accordingly. Or you can
- invoke the Python interpreter explicitly, for example via a tiny
- shell script like::
-
- #! /bin/sh
- /usr/local/bin/python /path/to/git_multimail.py "$@"
+ are required. git-multimail has preliminary support for Python 3
+ (but it has been better tested with Python 2).
* The ``git`` command must be in your PATH. git-multimail is known to
work with Git versions back to 1.7.1. (Earlier versions have not
community.)
+Troubleshooting/FAQ
+-------------------
+
+Please read `<doc/troubleshooting.rst>`__ for frequently asked
+questions and common issues with git-multimail.
+
+
Configuration
-------------
following ``git config`` settings:
multimailhook.environment
-
- This describes the general environment of the repository.
+ This describes the general environment of the repository. In most
+ cases, you do not need to specify a value for this variable:
+ `git-multimail` will autodetect which environment to use.
Currently supported values:
- * generic
-
+ generic
the username of the pusher is read from $USER or $USERNAME and
the repository name is derived from the repository's path.
- * gitolite
-
+ gitolite
the username of the pusher is read from $GL_USER, the repository
name is read from $GL_REPO, and the From: header value is
optionally read from gitolite.conf (see multimailhook.from).
For more information about gitolite and git-multimail, read
- doc/gitolite.rst
-
- If neither of these environments is suitable for your setup, then
- you can implement a Python class that inherits from Environment
- and instantiate it via a script that looks like the example
+ `<doc/gitolite.rst>`__
+
+ stash
+ Environment to use when ``git-multimail`` is ran as an Atlassian
+ BitBucket Server (formerly known as Atlassian Stash) hook.
+
+ **Warning:** this mode was provided by a third-party contributor
+ and never tested by the git-multimail maintainers. It is
+ provided as-is and may or may not work for you.
+
+ This value is automatically assumed when the stash-specific
+ flags (``--stash-user`` and ``--stash-repo``) are specified on
+ the command line. When this environment is active, the username
+ and repo come from these two command line flags, which must be
+ specified.
+
+ gerrit
+ Environment to use when ``git-multimail`` is ran as a
+ ``ref-updated`` Gerrit hook.
+
+ This value is used when the gerrit-specific command line flags
+ (``--oldrev``, ``--newrev``, ``--refname``, ``--project``) for
+ gerrit's ref-updated hook are present. When this environment is
+ active, the username of the pusher is taken from the
+ ``--submitter`` argument if that command line option is passed,
+ otherwise 'Gerrit' is used. The repository name is taken from
+ the ``--project`` option on the command line, which must be passed.
+
+ For more information about gerrit and git-multimail, read
+ `<doc/gerrit.rst>`__
+
+ If none of these environments is suitable for your setup, then you
+ can implement a Python class that inherits from Environment and
+ instantiate it via a script that looks like the example
post-receive script.
The environment value can be specified on the command line using
- the --environment option. If it is not specified on the command
- line or by multimailhook.environment, then it defaults to
- ``gitolite`` if the environment contains variables $GL_USER and
- $GL_REPO; otherwise ``generic``.
+ the ``--environment`` option. If it is not specified on the
+ command line or by ``multimailhook.environment``, the value is
+ guessed as follows:
-multimailhook.repoName
+ * If stash-specific (respectively gerrit-specific) command flags
+ are present on the command-line, then ``stash`` (respectively
+ ``gerrit``) is used.
+
+ * If the environment variables $GL_USER and $GL_REPO are set, then
+ ``gitolite`` is used.
+
+ * If none of the above apply, then ``generic`` is used.
+multimailhook.repoName
A short name of this Git repository, to be used in various places
in the notification email text. The default is to use $GL_REPO
for gitolite repositories, or otherwise to derive this value from
the repository path name.
multimailhook.mailingList
-
The list of email addresses to which notification emails should be
sent, as RFC 2822 email addresses separated by commas. This
configuration option can be multivalued. Leave it unset or set it
specific types of notification email.
multimailhook.refchangeList
-
The list of email addresses to which summary emails about
reference changes should be sent, as RFC 2822 email addresses
separated by commas. This configuration option can be
multivalued. The default is the value in
- multimailhook.mailingList. Set this value to the empty string to
- prevent reference change emails from being sent even if
+ multimailhook.mailingList. Set this value to "none" (or the empty
+ string) to prevent reference change emails from being sent even if
multimailhook.mailingList is set.
multimailhook.announceList
-
The list of email addresses to which emails about new annotated
tags should be sent, as RFC 2822 email addresses separated by
commas. This configuration option can be multivalued. The
default is the value in multimailhook.refchangeList or
- multimailhook.mailingList. Set this value to the empty string to
- prevent annotated tag announcement emails from being sent even if
- one of the other values is set.
+ multimailhook.mailingList. Set this value to "none" (or the empty
+ string) to prevent annotated tag announcement emails from being sent
+ even if one of the other values is set.
multimailhook.commitList
-
The list of email addresses to which emails about individual new
commits should be sent, as RFC 2822 email addresses separated by
commas. This configuration option can be multivalued. The
default is the value in multimailhook.mailingList. Set this value
- to the empty string to prevent notification emails about
+ to "none" (or the empty string) to prevent notification emails about
individual commits from being sent even if
multimailhook.mailingList is set.
multimailhook.announceShortlog
-
If this option is set to true, then emails about changes to
annotated tags include a shortlog of changes since the previous
tag. This can be useful if the annotated tags represent releases;
not so straightforward, then the shortlog might be confusing
rather than useful. Default is false.
-multimailhook.refchangeShowGraph
+multimailhook.commitEmailFormat
+ The format of email messages for the individual commits, can be "text" or
+ "html". In the latter case, the emails will include diffs using colorized
+ HTML instead of plain text used by default. Note that this currently the
+ ref change emails are always sent in plain text.
+
+ Note that when using "html", the formatting is done by parsing the
+ output of ``git log`` with ``-p``. When using
+ ``multimailhook.commitLogOpts`` to specify a ``--format`` for
+ ``git log``, one may get false positive (e.g. lines in the body of
+ the message starting with ``+++`` or ``---`` colored in red or
+ green).
+
+ By default, all the message is HTML-escaped. See
+ ``multimailhook.htmlInIntro`` to change this behavior.
+
+multimailhook.commitBrowseURL
+ Used to generate a link to an online repository browser in commit
+ emails. This variable must be a string. Format directives like
+ ``%(<variable>)s`` will be expanded the same way as template
+ strings. In particular, ``%(id)s`` will be replaced by the full
+ Git commit identifier (40-chars hexadecimal).
+
+ If the string does not contain any format directive, then
+ ``%(id)s`` will be automatically added to the string. If you don't
+ want ``%(id)s`` to be automatically added, use the empty format
+ directive ``%()s`` anywhere in the string.
+
+ For example, a suitable value for the git-multimail project itself
+ would be
+ ``https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail/commit/%(id)s``.
+
+multimailhook.htmlInIntro, multimailhook.htmlInFooter
+ When generating an HTML message, git-multimail escapes any HTML
+ sequence by default. This means that if a template contains HTML
+ like ``<a href="foo">link</a>``, the reader will see the HTML
+ source code and not a proper link.
+
+ Set ``multimailhook.htmlInIntro`` to true to allow writting HTML
+ formatting in introduction templates. Similarly, set
+ ``multimailhook.htmlInFooter`` for HTML in the footer.
+
+ Variables expanded in the template are still escaped. For example,
+ if a repository's path contains a ``<``, it will be rendered as
+ such in the message.
+
+ Read `<doc/customizing-emails.rst>`__ for more details and
+ examples.
+multimailhook.refchangeShowGraph
If this option is set to true, then summary emails about reference
changes will additionally include:
specified in graphOpts. The default is false.
multimailhook.refchangeShowLog
-
If this option is set to true, then summary emails about reference
changes will include a detailed log of the added commits in
addition to the one line summary. The log is generated by running
Default is false.
multimailhook.mailer
-
This option changes the way emails are sent. Accepted values are:
- - sendmail (the default): use the command ``/usr/sbin/sendmail`` or
+ * **sendmail (the default)**: use the command ``/usr/sbin/sendmail`` or
``/usr/lib/sendmail`` (or sendmailCommand, if configured). This
mode can be further customized via the following options:
- * multimailhook.sendmailCommand
-
- The command used by mailer ``sendmail`` to send emails. Shell
- quoting is allowed in the value of this setting, but remember that
- Git requires double-quotes to be escaped; e.g.::
+ multimailhook.sendmailCommand
+ The command used by mailer ``sendmail`` to send emails. Shell
+ quoting is allowed in the value of this setting, but remember that
+ Git requires double-quotes to be escaped; e.g.::
- git config multimailhook.sendmailcommand '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -F \"Git Repo\"'
+ git config multimailhook.sendmailcommand '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -F \"Git Repo\"'
- Default is '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t' or
- '/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t' (depending on which file is
- present and executable).
+ Default is '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t' or
+ '/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t' (depending on which file is
+ present and executable).
- * multimailhook.envelopeSender
+ multimailhook.envelopeSender
+ If set then pass this value to sendmail via the -f option to set
+ the envelope sender address.
- If set then pass this value to sendmail via the -f option to set
- the envelope sender address.
-
- - smtp: use Python's smtplib. This is useful when the sendmail
+ * **smtp**: use Python's smtplib. This is useful when the sendmail
command is not available on the system. This mode can be
further customized via the following options:
- * multimailhook.smtpServer
-
- The name of the SMTP server to connect to. The value can
- also include a colon and a port number; e.g.,
- ``mail.example.com:25``. Default is 'localhost' using port 25.
+ multimailhook.smtpServer
+ The name of the SMTP server to connect to. The value can
+ also include a colon and a port number; e.g.,
+ ``mail.example.com:25``. Default is 'localhost' using port 25.
- * multimailhook.smtpUser
- * multimailhook.smtpPass
-
- Server username and password. Required if smtpEncryption is 'ssl'.
- Note that the username and password currently need to be
- set cleartext in the configuration file, which is not
- recommended. If you need to use this option, be sure your
- configuration file is read-only.
-
- * multimailhook.envelopeSender
+ multimailhook.smtpUser, multimailhook.smtpPass
+ Server username and password. Required if smtpEncryption is 'ssl'.
+ Note that the username and password currently need to be
+ set cleartext in the configuration file, which is not
+ recommended. If you need to use this option, be sure your
+ configuration file is read-only.
+ multimailhook.envelopeSender
The sender address to be passed to the SMTP server. If
unset, then the value of multimailhook.from is used.
- * multimailhook.smtpServerTimeout
-
+ multimailhook.smtpServerTimeout
Timeout in seconds.
- * multimailhook.smtpEncryption
+ multimailhook.smtpEncryption
+ Set the security type. Allowed values: ``none``, ``ssl``, ``tls`` (starttls).
+ Default is ``none``.
+
+ multimailhook.smtpCACerts
+ Set the path to a list of trusted CA certificate to verify the
+ server certificate, only supported when ``smtpEncryption`` is
+ ``tls``. If unset or empty, the server certificate is not
+ verified. If it targets a file containing a list of trusted CA
+ certificates (PEM format) these CAs will be used to verify the
+ server certificate. For debian, you can set
+ ``/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt`` for using the system
+ trusted CAs. For self-signed server, you can add your server
+ certificate to the system store::
+
+ cd /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
+ openssl s_client -starttls smtp \
+ -connect mail.example.net:587 -showcerts \
+ </dev/null 2>/dev/null \
+ | openssl x509 -outform PEM >mail.example.net.crt
+ update-ca-certificates
+
+ and used the updated ``/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt``. Or
+ directly use your ``/path/to/mail.example.net.crt``. Default is
+ unset.
+
+ multimailhook.smtpServerDebugLevel
+ Integer number. Set to greater than 0 to activate debugging.
- Set the security type. Allowed values: none, ssl.
- Default=none.
+multimailhook.from, multimailhook.fromCommit, multimailhook.fromRefchange
+ If set, use this value in the From: field of generated emails.
+ ``fromCommit`` is used for commit emails, ``fromRefchange`` is
+ used for refchange emails, and ``from`` is used as fall-back in
+ all cases.
- * multimailhook.smtpServerDebugLevel
+ The value for these variables can be either:
- Integer number. Set to greater than 0 to activate debugging.
+ - An email address, which will be used directly.
+
+ - The value ``pusher``, in which case the pusher's address (if
+ available) will be used.
-multimailhook.from
+ - The value ``author`` (meaningful only for ``fromCommit``), in which
+ case the commit author's address will be used.
- If set, use this value in the From: field of generated emails. If
- unset, the value of the From: header is determined as follows:
+ If config values are unset, the value of the From: header is
+ determined as follows:
1. (gitolite environment only) Parse gitolite.conf, looking for a
block of comments that looks like this::
3. Use the value of multimailhook.envelopeSender.
multimailhook.administrator
-
The name and/or email address of the administrator of the Git
repository; used in FOOTER_TEMPLATE. Default is
multimailhook.envelopesender if it is set; otherwise a generic
string is used.
multimailhook.emailPrefix
-
All emails have this string prepended to their subjects, to aid
email filtering (though filtering based on the X-Git-* email
headers is probably more robust). Default is the short name of
value to the empty string to suppress the email prefix.
multimailhook.emailMaxLines
-
The maximum number of lines that should be included in the body of
a generated email. If not specified, there is no limit. Lines
beyond the limit are suppressed and counted, and a final line is
added indicating the number of suppressed lines.
multimailhook.emailMaxLineLength
-
The maximum length of a line in the email body. Lines longer than
- this limit are truncated to this length with a trailing `` [...]``
+ this limit are truncated to this length with a trailing ``[...]``
added to indicate the missing text. The default is 500, because
(a) diffs with longer lines are probably from binary files, for
which a diff is useless, and (b) even if a text file has such long
truncation, set this option to 0.
multimailhook.maxCommitEmails
-
The maximum number of commit emails to send for a given change.
When the number of patches is larger that this value, only the
summary refchange email is sent. This can avoid accidental
emails limit, set this option to 0. The default is 500.
multimailhook.emailStrictUTF8
-
If this boolean option is set to `true`, then the main part of the
email body is forced to be valid UTF-8. Any characters that are
not valid UTF-8 are converted to the Unicode replacement
character, U+FFFD. The default is `true`.
multimailhook.diffOpts
-
Options passed to ``git diff-tree`` when generating the summary
information for ReferenceChange emails. Default is ``--stat
--summary --find-copies-harder``. Add -p to those options to
details.
multimailhook.graphOpts
-
Options passed to ``git log --graph`` when generating graphs for the
reference change summary emails (used only if refchangeShowGraph
is true). The default is '--oneline --decorate'.
Shell quoting is allowed; see logOpts for details.
multimailhook.logOpts
-
Options passed to ``git log`` to generate additional info for
reference change emails (used only if refchangeShowLog is set).
For example, adding -p will show each commit's complete diff. The
logopts = --pretty=format:\"%h %aN <%aE>%n%s%n%n%b%n\"
multimailhook.commitLogOpts
-
Options passed to ``git log`` to generate additional info for
revision change emails. For example, adding --ignore-all-spaces
will suppress whitespace changes. The default options are ``-C
--stat -p --cc``. Shell quoting is allowed; see
multimailhook.logOpts for details.
-multimailhook.emailDomain
+multimailhook.dateSubstitute
+ String to use as a substitute for ``Date:`` in the output of ``git
+ log`` while formatting commit messages. This is usefull to avoid
+ emitting a line that can be interpreted by mailers as the start of
+ a cited message (Zimbra webmail in particular). Defaults to
+ ``CommitDate:``. Set to an empty string or ``none`` to deactivate
+ the behavior.
+multimailhook.emailDomain
Domain name appended to the username of the person doing the push
to convert it into an email address
(via ``"%s@%s" % (username, emaildomain)``). More complicated
schemes can be implemented by overriding Environment and
overriding its get_pusher_email() method.
-multimailhook.replyTo
-multimailhook.replyToCommit
-multimailhook.replyToRefchange
-
+multimailhook.replyTo, multimailhook.replyToCommit, multimailhook.replyToRefchange
Addresses to use in the Reply-To: field for commit emails
(replyToCommit) and refchange emails (replyToRefchange).
multimailhook.replyTo is used as default when replyToCommit or
- replyToRefchange is not set. The value for these variables can be
- either:
-
- - An email address, which will be used directly.
-
- - The value `pusher`, in which case the pusher's address (if
- available) will be used. This is the default for refchange
- emails.
+ replyToRefchange is not set. The shortcuts ``pusher`` and
+ ``author`` are allowed with the same semantics as for
+ ``multimailhook.from``. In addition, the value ``none`` can be
+ used to omit the ``Reply-To:`` field.
- - The value `author` (meaningful only for replyToCommit), in which
- case the commit author's address will be used. This is the
- default for commit emails.
-
- - The value `none`, in which case the Reply-To: field will be
- omitted.
+ The default is ``pusher`` for refchange emails, and ``author`` for
+ commit emails.
multimailhook.quiet
-
Do not output the list of email recipients from the hook
multimailhook.stdout
-
For debugging, send emails to stdout rather than to the
mailer. Equivalent to the --stdout command line option
multimailhook.scanCommitForCc
-
If this option is set to true, than recipients from lines in commit body
that starts with ``CC:`` will be added to CC list.
Default: false
multimailhook.combineWhenSingleCommit
-
If this option is set to true and a single new commit is pushed to
a branch, combine the summary and commit email messages into a
single email.
Default: true
+multimailhook.refFilterInclusionRegex, multimailhook.refFilterExclusionRegex, multimailhook.refFilterDoSendRegex, multimailhook.refFilterDontSendRegex
+ **Warning:** these options are experimental. They should work, but
+ the user-interface is not stable yet (in particular, the option
+ names may change). If you want to participate in stabilizing the
+ feature, please contact the maintainers and/or send pull-requests.
+
+ Regular expressions that can be used to limit refs for which email
+ updates will be sent. It is an error to specify both an inclusion
+ and an exclusion regex. If a ``refFilterInclusionRegex`` is
+ specified, emails will only be sent for refs which match this
+ regex. If a ``refFilterExclusionRegex`` regex is specified,
+ emails will be sent for all refs except those that match this
+ regex (or that match a predefined regex specific to the
+ environment, such as "^refs/notes" for most environments and
+ "^refs/notes|^refs/changes" for the gerrit environment).
+
+ The expressions are matched against the complete refname, and is
+ considered to match if any substring matches. For example, to
+ filter-out all tags, set ``refFilterExclusionRegex`` to
+ ``^refs/tags/`` (note the leading ``^`` but no trailing ``$``). If
+ you set ``refFilterExclusionRegex`` to ``master``, then any ref
+ containing ``master`` will be excluded (the ``master`` branch, but
+ also ``refs/tags/master`` or ``refs/heads/foo-master-bar``).
+
+ ``refFilterDoSendRegex`` and ``refFilterDontSendRegex`` are
+ analogous to ``refFilterInclusionRegex`` and
+ ``refFilterExclusionRegex`` with one difference: with
+ ``refFilterDoSendRegex`` and ``refFilterDontSendRegex``, commits
+ introduced by one excluded ref will not be considered as new when
+ they reach an included ref. Typically, if you add a branch ``foo``
+ to ``refFilterDontSendRegex``, push commits to this branch, and
+ later merge branch ``foo`` into ``master``, then the notification
+ email for ``master`` will contain a commit email only for the
+ merge commit. If you include ``foo`` in
+ ``refFilterExclusionRegex``, then at the time of merge, you will
+ receive one commit email per commit in the branch.
+
+ These variables can be multi-valued, like::
+
+ [multimailhook]
+ refFilterExclusionRegex = ^refs/tags/
+ refFilterExclusionRegex = ^refs/heads/master$
+
+ You can also provide a whitespace-separated list like::
+
+ [multimailhook]
+ refFilterExclusionRegex = ^refs/tags/ ^refs/heads/master$
+
+ Both examples exclude tags and the master branch, and are
+ equivalent to::
+
+ [multimailhook]
+ refFilterExclusionRegex = ^refs/tags/|^refs/heads/master$
Email filtering aids
--------------------
the local environment in which Git is running. Two types of
environment are built in:
-* GenericEnvironment: a stand-alone Git repository.
+GenericEnvironment
+ a stand-alone Git repository.
-* GitoliteEnvironment: a Git repository that is managed by gitolite
- [3]_. For such repositories, the identity of the pusher is read from
- environment variable $GL_USER, the name of the repository is read
- from $GL_REPO (if it is not overridden by multimailhook.reponame),
- and the From: header value is optionally read from gitolite.conf
- (see multimailhook.from).
+GitoliteEnvironment
+ a Git repository that is managed by gitolite
+ [3]_. For such repositories, the identity of the pusher is read from
+ environment variable $GL_USER, the name of the repository is read
+ from $GL_REPO (if it is not overridden by multimailhook.reponame),
+ and the From: header value is optionally read from gitolite.conf
+ (see multimailhook.from).
By default, git-multimail assumes GitoliteEnvironment if $GL_USER and
$GL_REPO are set, and otherwise assumes GenericEnvironment.
Getting involved
----------------
-git-multimail is an open-source project, built by volunteers. We would
-welcome your help!
-
-The current maintainers are Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
-and Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>.
-
-Please note that although a copy of git-multimail is distributed in
-the "contrib" section of the main Git project, development takes place
-in a separate git-multimail repository on GitHub:
-
- https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail
-
-Whenever enough changes to git-multimail have accumulated, a new
-code-drop of git-multimail will be submitted for inclusion in the Git
-project.
-
-We use the GitHub issue tracker to keep track of bugs and feature
-requests, and we use GitHub pull requests to exchange patches (though,
-if you prefer, you can send patches via the Git mailing list with CC
-to the maintainers). Please sign off your patches as per the Git
-project practice.
-
-General discussion of git-multimail can take place on the main Git
-mailing list,
-
- git@vger.kernel.org
-
-Please CC emails regarding git-multimail to the maintainers so that we
-don't overlook them.
+Please, read `<CONTRIBUTING.rst>`__ for instructions on how to
+contribute to git-multimail.
Footnotes