Re: Formatting problem send_mail in version 2.10.0

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 10, 2016, 23:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20161010234339.2oyc7kplz2zzjfwh@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <577f6873-c320-7aa6-b42f-475f2afb9b92@lwfinger.net>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:35:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

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> > Ah, it is Mail::Address. It gets this case right, but if I uninstall it,
> > then the cc becomes:
> > 
> >   Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org[4.8+]>
> > 
> > that you saw, which is broken. Older versions of git, even without
> > Mail::Address, got this right. The breakage bisects to b1c8a11
> > (send-email: allow multiple emails using --cc, --to and --bcc,
> > 2015-06-30) from v2.6.0, but I didn't dig deeper into the cause.
> 
> I did not have Mail::Address installed, but adding it did not help.

Weird. On my system:

  $ git send-email -1 --to=peff@peff.net --dry-run | grep ^Cc
  Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org[4.8+]>

  $ sudo apt-get install libmailtools-perl
  ... apt-get cruft ...

  $ git send-email -1 --to=peff@peff.net --dry-run | grep ^Cc
  Cc: "Stable [4.8+]" <stable@vger.kernel.org>

I wonder if the version matters (mine is 2.13-1, packaged by Debian).

> I solved my immediate problem by moving the [4.8+] between Stable and the
> starting <. The result is spaced funny, but at least the info is there.

If you can change the format, I suspect:

  Cc: "Stable: [v4.8+]" <stable@vger.kernel.org>

will probably yield the most consistent results.

-Peff