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[Closed] git-email: sendemail.bcc in config file overrides command line option "--bcc"

From
ALAdam Lee <adam.lee@canonical.com>
Date
May 9, 2014, 16:26 UTC
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<20140509162608.GA25057@adam-laptop>
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<20140509154509.GE18197@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 04:13:31PM +0800, Adam Lee wrote:
> 
> > BugLink: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747068
> > 
> > "--bcc" should have higher priority than sendemail.bcc.
> > 
> > > --bcc=<address>
> > >     Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of sendemail.bcc.
> > >
> > >     The --bcc option must be repeated for each user you want on the bcc list.
> > 
> > Reproducing steps:
> > 1, set sendemail.bcc in .gitconfig.
> > 2, git send-email --bcc with another address.
> 
> Hrm, I cannot reproduce at all here:
> 
>   $ git config sendemail.bcc config-bcc@example.com
>   $ git send-email --dry-run --to=to@example.com -1 origin
>   (mbox) Adding cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> from line 'From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>'
>   Dry-OK. Log says:
>   Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i to@example.com gitster@pobox.com config-bcc@example.com
>   > [...]
> 
> OK, so our configured bcc works. Now let's override it:
> 
>   $ git send-email --dry-run --to=to@example.com \
>       --bcc=cmdline-bcc@example.com -1 origin
>   (mbox) Adding cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> from line 'From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>'
>   Dry-OK. Log says:
>   Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i to@example.com gitster@pobox.com cmdline-bcc@example.com
> 
> That looks like it's working as expected. Can you show us similar
> commands that demonstrate the failure?
> 
> -Peff

I can't reproduce it now, there might be something wrong in my command lines, let's close it first. Thanks, Jeff.

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Adam Lee
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