From: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:14:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Add --suppress-all-from option.
Message-ID: <20071221111412.GA8695@bulgaria.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1198216860-487-1-git-send-email-git@davidb.org>

[David Brown <git@davidb.org>]
> Sometimes, it is useful to be able to send a patch to a third party
> without the author of the patch being copied on the message.  An
> common example would be an internal discussion at a company to ask if
> a particular patch should be applied.  Some environments may even have
> policy against such mail being sent outside of the company.
> 
> Add the --suppress-all-from/--no-suppress-all-from options to avoid
> sending patches to the patch author, even if different from the
> sender.  Add the sendemail.suppressallfrom config option to allow this
> to have a different default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Brown <git@davidb.org>

Yes-Please: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>

This has caused me some pain previously, and just earlier today I 
received an internal patch mail from somebody at another company who
almost certainly did not intend to cc me.

Brian