post-receive-email: deprecate script in favor of git-multimail
Add a notice to the top of post-receive-email explaining that the
script is no longer under active development and pointing the user to
git-multimail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index 0e5b72d..1531150 100755
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@
#
# Copyright (c) 2007 Andy Parkins
#
-# An example hook script to mail out commit update information. This hook
-# sends emails listing new revisions to the repository introduced by the
-# change being reported. The rule is that (for branch updates) each commit
-# will appear on one email and one email only.
+# An example hook script to mail out commit update information.
+#
+# NOTE: This script is no longer under active development. There
+# is another script, git-multimail, which is more capable and
+# configurable and is largely backwards-compatible with this script;
+# please see "contrib/hooks/multimail/". For instructions on how to
+# migrate from post-receive-email to git-multimail, please see
+# "README.migrate-from-post-receive-email" in that directory.
+#
+# This hook sends emails listing new revisions to the repository
+# introduced by the change being reported. The rule is that (for
+# branch updates) each commit will appear on one email and one email
+# only.
#
# This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution
# will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script
