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git send-email and sending the cover-letter to all cc addresses found in a patch series

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DBDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Date
Mar 23, 2018, 07:38 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:44:54AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > But why !? Either Cc me on more of the series such that the whole makes
> > sense, or better yet, write a proper Changelog.
> 
> This is a common issue. We should encourage people to always send at
> least the cover-page to everybody who gets cc'd, even if they don't
> get the whole series.

Will try to do that in future. Does git send-email have such an option? Or do I have to specify all cc addresses in the cover letter manually? I found some reference to an unresolved discussion on git@ of that topic in 2016, so I might not be the only one who could make use of that feature...

Thanks,
	Dominik
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