git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2009, 23:59 UTC
Message-ID
<7v4ouqwa42.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<7fedc4b76fed03e4db6a2bb7453609c9cd02928a.1244496564.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> Every so often, someone sends out an unedited cover-letter template.
> Add a simple check to send-email that refuses to send if the subject
> contains "*** SUBJECT HERE ***", with an option --force to override.

Good ;-). More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is nothing said in the message other than the shortstat).

One twist is that I am reasonably sure that somebody will soon fix the shortstat part of the cover letter with something more reasonable (i.e. not categorized by author, but instead retaining the order of patches, and for an added bonus, append names of authors other than yourself at the end of the line in parentheses, or something).

Previous: Thomas RastNext: Thomas Rast
Message 2 of 8 in “send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject”
  1. send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subjectThomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2009
  3. Thomas RastJun 9, 2009
  4. Thomas RastJun 12, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2009
  6. Markus HeidelbergJun 9, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2009
  8. Markus HeidelbergJun 9, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.