Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Cc more people
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- Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
- Date
- Apr 19, 2018, 12:10 UTC
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- <20180419121024.GD5556@bombadil.infradead.org>
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- <xmqqr2ncgqhl.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 06:21:42AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > But IMO this patch is really lacking a few things before being ready:
> >
> > 1. You have no tests for this. See t/t9001-send-email.sh for examples,
> > ...
> > 2. Just a few lines down from your quoted hunk we have this:
> > ... code about $supress_cc{<token>} ...
> > Your change should at least describe why those aren't being updated,
> > but probably we should add some other command-line option for
> > ignoring these wildcards, e.g. --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=reviewed
> > --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=seen etc, and we can make --[no-]signed-off-by
> > a historical alias for --[no-]wildcard-by-cc=signed-off.
> > 3. Ditto all the documentation in "man git-send-email" about
> > ...
>
> Thanks, I agree that 2. (the lack of suppression) is a showstopper.I agree with that (and the lack of tests, obviously)
> I'd further say that these new CC-sources should be disabled by > default and made opt-in to avoid surprising existing users.
But I disagree with this. The current behaviour is surprising to existing users, to the point where people are writing their own scripts to replace git send-email (which seems crazy to me).
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> One thing we also need to be very careful about is that some of the > fields may not even have an e-mail address. We can expect that > S-o-b and Cc would be of form "human readable name <email@addre.ss>" > by their nature, but it is perfectly fine to write only human > readable name without address on random lines like "suggeted-by" and > "helped-by". There needs a way for the end-user to avoid using data > found on such lines as if they are valid e-mail addresses.
I also agree with this. I'll add some test-cases and make sure we only add these if they're valid email addresses.