[kgb-maintainers] Bug#698133: kgb-client: Should not resend the whole history when pushing branches with content merged from other branches

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: kgb-client
Version: 1.05-1+squeeze1
Severity: normal

In the dpkg repository, we have multiple branches. I maintain the
squeeze-backports branch... most of the commits in that branch are
just commits merged from master. Those commits should not be reported...
we already saw them. Instead it should just report the merge commit
and commits specific to that branch.

The basic rule is "any commit that is already present in another branch
should not be reported".

It's not to difficult to implement. git-commit-notice on alioth already
has some logic to prevent this in the "report by mail" case. You can check
it out if you want.

Cheers,

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