From: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:27:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH v2 0/6] add support for git send-email
Message-ID: <20091203192731.GD23258@ldl.fc.hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <b8197bcb0912012246n3b83866cjb93654effc000242@mail.gmail.com>

* Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> > The upshot is that in stg mail, --git and --mbox don't interact
> > well, and the resulting mbox file will lack the recipients. This
> > might be fixed in the future if we teach git send-email how to
> > generate mbox files, but then we introduce a versioning problem.
> 
> One wild idea: git send-email's --smtp-server flag will accept the
> (full) path of a sendmail program; writing such a program, just
> capable enough to receive the outgoing emails and dumping them to a
> file, should be easy. Another option would be a program that speaks
> just enough SMTP to accept the mails. (Incidentally, these two would
> be useful in testing stg mail even without the --git option.)
 
Hm, I think this is getting to be a bit of overkill. I could see
adding --mbox support to git send-email as being a better use of
time (IMO).

> I fully understand if you'd rather get on with scratching your actual
> itch, though ...
 
:)

> > So let's just accept this wart for now, and say, if you want an mbox
> > file generated, don't use --git. That seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Sure.

Thanks,
/ac