Re: Git pull ack emails..

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:46:06AM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> If it's a "proper" pull request (ie done by git request-pull), then
> the magic marker would be that it as that
>
>    for you to fetch changes up to %H:
>
> line where %H is the hash of the tip of the tree that is requested to be pulled.
>
> Then automation could literally just check "is that commit in Linus'
> public tree", and when that happens, generate an automatic
> notification that the pull request in question has been merged.

I can probably do something like that at kernel.org. How about something 
more generic -- e.g. a simple tool that asks a remote web service to 
notify you when a commit-id is seen in one of the kernel.org repos?

E.g.:

git lmk for-linus mainline

this does:

- find out the commit-id points at "for-linus"
- send a REST request to https://foo.kerkel.org/lmk:

 {
   "tree": "mainline",
   "commit": "123abc...abc555",
   "notify": "(output of $(git config user.email)"
 }

We already run a bunch of periodic jobs on repo updates and can run an 
additional check-and-fire-an-email automation job.

Would that be a useful alternative? If yes, what would be your preferred 
workflow for such tool instead of "git lmk [commit] [tree-moniker]"?

-K

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