Re: git-send-email: Ability to populate CC using more tags

From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Date: May 20, 2020, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20200520075551.GA3155@Mani-XPS-13-9360>
In-Reply-To: <f723cce2bcbccbfdf6ebc80d1e68ba4fe10c2aee.camel@perches.com>

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:06:45PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

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> On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 00:10 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Currently 'git-send-email' lacks the ability to CC people described using
> > tags such as Acked-by and Reported-by etc...
> > 
> > While doing a bit of googling, I found a patch from Joe [1] but that doesn't
> > look like made its way. And in that discussion I didn't see any real objections
> > for the patch intention apart from the usage of the term 'trailers'.
> > 
> > So I'm just curious if Joe or anyone has plan to resubmit it! If not I may
> > do that.
> > 
> > PS: 'bylines' as mentioned by Joe seems reasonable to me.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mani
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/30/650
> 
> You need to use the "--misc-by" option.
> 
> Perhaps you need to update your git version
> as that was added with:
> 
> commit ef0cc1df90f6b6c2987ab2db8e0ccf2cfc421edf
> Author: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Date:   Tue Oct 16 09:39:23 2018 +0200
> 
> send-email: also pick up cc addresses from -by trailers
>

Ah, yes. This does the job :) I didn't notice this earlier.

Thanks, Mani