Re: [PATCH] send-email: Add tocmd option to suppress-cc

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> writes:
> >
> >> On 18-05-17, 17:05, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> >>> This adds tocmd option to suppress-cc command which already supports
> >>> cccmd and others.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> >>> ---
> >>>  Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 1 +
> >>>  git-send-email.perl              | 8 ++++----
> >>>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Ping !!
> >
> > Pong?
> >
> > I didn't get the impression that in the discussion that led to your
> > patch (or in any response to the patch) we established that it is a
> > good idea to change the behaviour of suppress-cc unconditionally
> > like this patch does.

> I think suppress-cc that suppresses cccmd output is very sensible
> (after all, it is about suppressing CC and cccmd is about producing
> CC), but I am not convinced that it is a good idea to suppress tocmd
> (which is about producing To) via suppress-cc.
> 
> Going back to the core part of your change, i.e.
> 
> -	foreach my $entry (qw (cccmd cc author self sob body bodycc)) {
> +	foreach my $entry (qw (tocmd cccmd cc author self sob body bodycc)) {
> 
> to think about it a bit more, I notice that all the existing ones
> are about CC.  So I am not just not convinced that tocmd belongs to
> the same class.  I am inclined to say that it smells quite different
> from others.