Re: git-send-email --suppress-from option doesn't work.

From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2007, 16:47 UTC
Message-ID: <45B8DF24.6080001@freescale.com>
In-Reply-To: <45B01DD4.7000204@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> I believe
> 
> 	(/^(Cc|From):[^<]+<([^>])+>.*$/)
> 
> would do the trick for your case. It would however fail when specifying a proper
> --from address in the 'git commit --author="Foo Barson <foo@barson.com>"' style.

Even so, it would still be very picky about the layout. --suppress-from should just compare the actual email addresses, not the names or any other characters.

> Are you sure you need to specify --from for those patches though?

Yes.  If I don't specify --from, then git-send-email will prompt me for the 
From: address.  I want git-send-email to be completely non-interactive.

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>> Some of you might say at this point, "Why don't you  just specify --from
>> "Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>"?  I tried that, and it still doesn't
>> work.
> 
> That sounds extremely odd indeed. Could this have to do with character
> conversion?

Actually, I figured out the problem is that I can't do this:

FROM='--from "Foo Barson <foo@barson.com>"' git-send-email $FROM ...

I got all sorts of weird messages about unbalanced > or something. Instead, I need to do this:

FROM="Foo Barson <foo@barson.com>" git-send-email --from $FROM ...

This is probably a shell issue instead of a git-send-email issue, but it is annoying.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale