Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-send-email: Add a --suppress-all option

From: Felipe Balbi <felipebalbi@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2007, 13:29 UTC
Message-ID: <31e679430709180629p328abba8ud4c4ce7fef7645e4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070918132251.GB12120@fieldses.org>

Hi,

On 9/18/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:40:55AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >> From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
> >> This patch adds a --suppress-all option to avoid sending emails
> >> to everybody but the ones listed by --to option.
> >
> > To my minds eye, --suppress-all is equivalent to --dry-run. Could you
> > rename it to "--cc-nobody" or some such?
> >
> > On a side-note, I've never really understood why git-send-email *by
> > default*
> > sends to a bazillion people. Does anybody ever use it without suppressing
> > most of the CC targets?
>
> Yes.  I never suppress the cc's.  The cc-everyone thing is standard on
> the kernel mailing lists.
>
> The one exception is if I'm just sending the series to myself as a test.

And that the motivation for this patch :-p

Internally (in my company, where I work), we send patches to each other for code review before sending it publicly.

>
> --b.
>

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Best Regards,

Felipe Balbi
felipebalbi@users.sourceforge.net