There may be an Infra request or configuration here. At Logging, we
get diffs from both GitHub and Gitbox commits (although we also have a
few interacting bots that cause some messages to get duplicated
twice).

On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 13:05, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 18:32, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 1:04 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 14:01, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 8:53 AM Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > sebb wrote on 2019-6-2 8:44AM EDT:
> > > > > > Top posting
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The actual changes to the files below are not detailed anywhere in 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > commits list AFAICT.
> > > > > > This makes CTR rather hard.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think this is due to a problem with interpreting GitHub messages.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > @Shane Curcuru are you committing to github or gitbox.a.o?
> > > > >
> > > > > I used the GitHub website UI to look at Matt's PR, review the changes,
> > > > > and push the pretty green Merge button.
> > > > >
> > > > > > I only use gitbox, and AFAIK all my commit diffs are shown
> > > > >
> > > > > I only use the GitHub Desktop to do my own personal work, and it then
> > > > > pushes to GitHub.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Until such time as the commit mails are sorted out would it be
> > > > > > possible for people to use gitbox instead of GitHub? Or will that
> > > > > > cause problems?
> > > > >
> > > > > If the PMC decides on only gitbox, that's fine; but in the short term 
> > > > > I
> > > > > won't be looking at PRs to review since I've never really used gitbox
> > > > > directly, so I'll have to figure it out first.
> > > >
> > > > Pull requests and GitHub Desktop are two good use cases for using
> > > > github directly.
> > >
> > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > > I use the command line so switching would be easy, but then again, I
> > > > do a rebase before pushing, and so I don't encounter the problem.
> > >
> > > Are you saying that the diffs would be OK if Shane did a rebase before 
> > > pushing?
> >
> > I haven't seen a problem with my commits.  Have you?
>
> I've not noticed any.
>
> I've just found one of Shane's that has the diff:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/53eab686658b569e5bca28c90f52cd4af98044e534c96e0a33360dd2@%3Ccommits.whimsical.apache.org%3E
>
> That was a 'clean' commit.
>
> > I don't know how to cause the "pretty green Merge button" to do a rebase.
>
> So how do you do the rebase?
>
> > > > While the notifications clearly could be improved, the actual diffs
> > > > can be easily found by going to
> > > > https://github.com/apache/whimsy/commits/master
> > >
> > > It's possible, but somewhat tedious, so if a rebase would fix this
> > > then it would be worth trying.
> >
> > The code to send out the diffs is in the infrastructure-puppet repository:
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-puppet/blob/deployment/modules/gitbox/files/hooks/post-receive.d/02-send-emails.py
> >
> > This makes use of https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail
> >
> > Perhaps the focus should be on fixing rather than avoiding the problem?
>
> Well, yes, but this has been going on for many months [1], [2], [3],
> without any sign of a fix.
>
> So if there is a simple work-round that can avoid the problem in the
> meantime, maybe Shane can use it?
>
> Sebb.
> [1] 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d1aa972b7923bfdaa3361c0e7385bcb9a58cbb7b0a0556eb0e183333@%3Cprivate.infra.apache.org%3E
> [2] 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a56c976355678640dbc5501387a2117a7f11da5a63795089ca741081@%3Cprivate.infra.apache.org%3E
> [3] 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a8af6f48c02d456fd218dec39c9d7908c347f365b014c6d8ea0de6b@%3Cprivate.infra.apache.org%3E



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