Re: How to use --cc-cmd in git-send-email?
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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- Jul 20, 2015, 14:20 UTC
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From: "Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> > wrote: >> From: "Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com> >>> git-send-email invokes the cc-cmd like this: >>> >>> $cc-cmd $patchfilename >>> >>> so, when you used 'cat cc-cmd' as the value of --cc-cmd, your >>> invocation >>> became: >>> >>> cat cc-cmd $patchfilename >>> >>> and since 'cat' copies the concatenation of its input files to its >>> output, that explains why you first saw the names from your 'cc-cmd' >>> file followed by the content of the patch file. >> >> Many thanks, that seems to explain everything! >> >> I may try and do a small doc patch for the git-send-email.txt man >> page (I >> have a few doc fixes backing up waiting to be done ;-) > > That would be welcome. I don't think it's mentioned at all in > git-send-email.txt that the --to-cmd/--cc-cmd commands are handed the > patch pathname as an argument, so that's certainly something worth > documenting. > --
The other issue I noted was wondering what "auto-cc" is?
It's only mentioned the once in:
--suppress-cc=<category>Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the auto-cc of:
Is it a sort of double negative? Certainly I had no idea what an auto-cc was ;-)
Philip