[StGit RFC PATCH 0/6] add support for git send-email

Hi Catalin,

This series starts down the path of eventually converting stg mail to simply become a wrapper around git send-email.

The first 4 patches do some refactoring of internal APIs to set us up for the money patch 5/6 which actually adds the call to git send-email.

Patch 6/6 shows a hint of the future, where we can start leveraging some of the features in git send-email for our own purposes. With it, you can now use mail aliases as supported by git send-email.

stg mail still has some nice features over git send-email, such as the -v command line parameter and --prefix. Maybe at some point in the future, we can migrate those features into git send-email and continue thinning out stg mail.

But I wanted to get some feedback first to make sure I'm going in the right direction before going too much further.

Disclaimer: I'm not really a python coder. Particularly, patch 5/6
is ugly in how we look at the various stg mail options. I'm sure there's
lots of room for improvement.

This mail was sent with:
	./stg mail -a --git --auto -e 

[Karl, sorry about the earlier accidental mail. That was a testing mishap.]

Thanks, /ac

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Alex Chiang (6):
      stg mail: Refactor __send_message and friends
      stg mail: reorder __build_[message|cover] parameters
      stg mail: make __send_message do more
      stg mail: factor out __update_header
      stg mail: add basic support for git send-email
      stg mail: don't parse To/Cc/Bcc in --git mode

 stgit/commands/mail.py |  205 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)