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When a new branch is pushed, git-notify attempts to find the commit at which the new branch diverged from an existing commit, and only includes the new commits in an email.

Sometimes though this search for a common ancestor goes too far back, and the resulting notification email has tons of old commits that we've already been notified of.

With a new repo, the very first git push spewed this error:

remote: Use of uninitialized value $old_sha1 in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/git-notify line 162.
remote: fatal: bad revision '^'
remote: non-zero exit for git-rev-list: 128 at /usr/bin/git-notify line 169.