From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:43:16 GMT
Subject: git send-email woes
Message-ID: <20060924224316.GA28051@uranus.ravnborg.org>

I stumbled on two issues with git-send-email today.
First of I forgot to tell where to find the patch files to send.
But git-send-email only complained _after_ I had given all
the information manually.
It would have been niver to check that all mandatory arguments
was present before being interactive.

The second issue are best explained quoting a mail from Matti Arnio:
> > The GIT is at times producing emails that are not
> > utterly strictly speaking kosher RFC-(2)822 format.
> >
> > It might be a surprise to you that unquoted dots in
> > people's names cause syntax scanner indigestion,
> > because said character has very special meaning in
> > RFC-822 syntax.  All would be fine if
> >     Example J.P. Example <example@example.net>
> > had couple quotes:
> >     "Example J.P. Example" <example@example.net>

What I could see was that git-send-email takes mail address
verbatim from "Signed-off-by:" lines and use it.
Would it be possible to always quote it except when quoted
or to do a more intelligent RFC2822 check?

That would keep suprises lower.

I'm not good a perlish so I have not attempted fixing it myself...

	Sam