From: Markus Heidelberg Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:25:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject Message-ID: <200906092025.18643.markus.heidelberg@web.de> In-Reply-To: <7v4ouqwa42.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano, 09.06.2009: > Thomas Rast writes: > > > Every so often, someone sends out an unedited cover-letter template. > > Add a simple check to send-email that refuses to send if the subject > > contains "*** SUBJECT HERE ***", with an option --force to override. > > Good ;-). More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section > (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is > nothing said in the message other than the shortstat). My mail "[PATCH 0/6] fixes for git-send-email" had an empty blurb section because it didn't need any additional description. I wouldn't want git to refuse sending it.