lazyweb: git cia hooks

Dear LazyWeb,

I use the standard ciabot.pl script in a git post-receive hook. This works ok, except in the case where changes are made in a published branch, and then that branch is merged into a second published branch.

In that case, ciabot.pl reports all the changes twice, once when they're committed to the published branch, and again when the branch is merged. This is worst when I sync up two branches; if there were a lot of changes made on either branch, they all flood into the irc channel again.

Am I using the ciabot.pl script wrong, or is there a better script I should use? Or maybe there's a CIA alternative that is smarter about git commits, so it will filter out duplicates?

Here, FWIW, is how I currently use it in my post-receive hook.

while read oldrev newrev refname; do
        refname=${refname#refs/heads/}
        [ "$refname" = "master" ] && refname=
        for merged in $(git rev-list --reverse $newrev ^$oldrev); do
                ciabot_git.pl $merged $refname
        done
done

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