Re: git-send-email: Send with mutt(1)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 10, 2023, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20231110214104.GA2758295@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <ZU4widBlHljjg9lL@debian>

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 02:30:49PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> > Having it directly in sendmailcmd causes some glitch: It repeats all CCs
> > in TO.  See a log:

Ah, right. That makes sense. send-email has to pass all of the envelope recipients on the command-line, which mutt then interprets as destinations to add to "to". Mutt is smart enough to de-duplicate the "to", but it (correctly) allows duplicate to/cc. (My basic test didn't have any cc's).

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> > So maybe we need the wrapper script to ignore the arguments.
> 
> Heh!  The following trick works as well, without needing a script:
> 
> [sendemail]
> 	sendmailcmd = mutt -H - && true
> 
> It probably relies too much on git-send-email(1)'s current
> implementation, but it works.  :)

I was going to suggest the same thing. And no, I don't think it is relying on any send-email implementation details. Git always tries to feed command-invoking config like this to the shell for consistency (and to allow tricks like this).

-Peff