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[PATCH 4/5] git-send-email: ask what to do with an invalid email address

From
KMKrzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Date
Nov 22, 2012, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID
<1353607932-10436-4-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net>
In-Reply-To
<1353607932-10436-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net>

We used to warn about invalid emails and just drop them. Such warnings can be unnoticed by user or noticed after sending email when we are not giving the "final sanity check [Y/n]?"

Now we quit by default.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 5056fdc..d42dca2 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -852,8 +852,16 @@ sub extract_valid_address_or_die {
 sub validate_address {
 	my $address = shift;
 	if (!extract_valid_address($address)) {
-		print STDERR "W: unable to extract a valid address from: $address\n";
-		return undef;
+		print STDERR "error: unable to extract a valid address from: $address\n";
+		$_ = ask("What to do with this address? ([q]uit|[d]rop): ",
+			valid_re => qr/^(?:quit|q|drop|d)/i,
+			default => 'q');
+		if (/^d/i) {
+			return undef;
+		} elsif (/^q/i) {
+			cleanup_compose_files();
+			exit(0);
+		}
 	}
 	return $address;
 }
-- 
1.8.0.393.gcc9701d
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  1. Felipe BalbiNov 19, 2012
  2. Krzysztof MazurNov 19, 2012
  3. Felipe BalbiNov 19, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2012
  5. Felipe ContrerasNov 19, 2012
  6. Krzysztof MazurNov 19, 2012
  7. Felipe ContrerasNov 19, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2012
  9. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  10. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  11. Felipe ContrerasNov 20, 2012
  12. Andreas EricssonNov 20, 2012
  13. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  14. Andreas SchwabNov 20, 2012
  15. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  16. Felipe ContrerasNov 20, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2012
  18. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2012
  20. 1/5 git-send-email: remove garbage after email addressKrzysztof Mazur, Nov 22, 2012
  21. 2/5 git-send-email: fix fallback code in extract_valid_address()Krzysztof Mazur, Nov 22, 2012
  22. 3/5 git-send-email: remove invalid addresses earlierKrzysztof Mazur, Nov 22, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2012
  24. 4/5 git-send-email: ask what to do with an invalid email addressKrzysztof Mazur, Nov 22, 2012
  25. 5/5 git-send-email: allow edit invalid email addressKrzysztof Mazur, Nov 22, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2012
  27. Krzysztof MazurNov 26, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2012
  29. Krzysztof MazurNov 26, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2012
  31. Krzysztof MazurNov 27, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2012
  33. Krzysztof MazurNov 20, 2012
  34. Felipe BalbiNov 20, 2012

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