Re: format-patch --cc and send-mail --s-o-b-cc don't play nice together

From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2008, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <36ca99e90804291511m619c8373j5e79edab2e57f644@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wyw7349.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>  > the --cc option from format-patch adds a Cc: header to the mail where
>  > multiple recipients are put into a new line, separated by commas.
>
>  I am not sure if --cc ever made sense to be given to format-patch.  It is
>  not a tool to send e-mails, which send-email is.

AFAIK, this option is not in the master branch.

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>  > Unfortunately send-mail with the --signed-off-by-cc option can't parse
>  > these lines.
>
>  Isn't --signed-off-by-cc a completely unrelated feature, where it gives
>  carbon copies to people who signed off the patch?  Why does the option
>  need to read from existing CC: header of the material the command is told
>  to send out?

No, it scans Cc: lines (header and body) too and add these to the cc list (in the body since abec100c3382f7d7b759f915a86e9773277263b6).

Bert