Re: git send-email woes

> 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...