pushing two commits in at once leads to a related problem

diff --git a/doc/bugs/git_mail_notification_race.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git_mail_notification_race.mdwn
index ebe158fb9c728c567c1820447dde0b811774fafb..eddc0181e41e73d90ca5c2be8c983792a3f63f32 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/git_mail_notification_race.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/git_mail_notification_race.mdwn
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ I was suprised to receive two mails from ikiwiki about one web edit:
         1   F Oct 30 To joey+ikiwiki update of ikiwiki's plugins/contrib/gallery.mdwn by http://arpitjain11.myopenid.com/
 
 The first of these had the correct diff for the changes made by the web
- edit (00259020061577316895370ee04cf00b634db98a).
+edit (00259020061577316895370ee04cf00b634db98a).
 
 But the second had a diff for modifications I made to ikiwiki code
 around the same time (2a6e353c205a6c2c8b8e2eaf85fe9c585c1af0cd).
@@ -38,3 +38,9 @@ diff for the first commit.
 
 Ikiwiki's own locking prevents this from happenning if both commits are web
 edits. At least one of the two commits has to be a non-web commit.
+
+----
+
+A related problem is that if two commits are made separately but then
+pushed in together, the commit code only looks at the HEAD commit, which
+is the second one. No notification is sent for the first.