Re: [PATCH v3] send-email: add --confirm option and configuration setting

> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 05:52, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
>>>> index adf7ecb..57127aa 100755
>>>> --- a/git-send-email.perl
>>>> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>>>> @@ -837,6 +837,37 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
>>>>        unshift (@sendmail_parameters,
>>>>                        '-f', $raw_from) if(defined $envelope_sender);
>>>>
>>>> +       if ($needs_confirm && !$dry_run) {
>>> So, the output is now differnt with and without --dry-run?
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any point in having the user confirm before
>> sending the message if the message is not actually going to be sent.
>> Am I missing something?
>
> I do not think you are missing anything.
>
> IIRC, the --dry-run mode shows more clearly to whom you would be CC'ing
> the messages; in other words, the behaviour would be different, but it
> gives an uninteractive way to confirm, and not pausing for confirmation is
> a good thing.
>