Configure Git Commit Email

1. Verify sendmail is installed

2. Execute the following git commands on the repo sending the email notification. Note: some of these config settings may be superfluous.

$ git config --global sendemail.smtpserver yourmailserver.com
$ git config --global sendemail.smtpserverport 25
$ git config --global sendmail.to youremail@address.com
$ git config --global user.name "BFI GIT"
$ git config --global user.email git@bfi.com
$ git config --global sendemail.smtpuser
$ git config --global sendemail.smtppass
$ git config --global hooks.mailinglist yourmailinglist@address.com
$ git config --global hooks.envelopesender whothisis@from.com
$ git config --global hooks.emailprefix [GIT]

3. In the /hooks directory of your bare repository (.git/hooks in a non-bare repo) copy/rename post-receive.sample to post-receive.

4. Edit post-receive and add the following line (your path to post-receive-email may be different)

. /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email

5. Edit the description file in your repo (.git/description in a non-bare repo) and replace the text with the name of your project. The text in the description file will show up in the subject line of the commit email.