Re: Failure to extra stable@vger.kernel.org addresses

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:30:02PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> We should probably fix the tools that generate these bogus
>> non-addresses first.  What's wrong with
>> 
>> 	Cc: stable kernel (v3.5 v3.6 v3.7) <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> 
>> which should be OK?
>> 
>> Also I suspect that this should be also deemed valid:
>> 
>> 	Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (Stable kernel - v3.5 v3.6 v3.7)
>
> So maybe we should just use the original regex:
>
> $recipient =~ s/(.*>).*$/$1/
>
> which does not add regression for valid addresses, and just fails
> in some rare cases when '>' is used in garbage. It was sufficient
> for original issue reported by, and tested by Felipe.
>
> The problem with '>' would be fixed in separate patch. The same
> problem exits for invalid address generated by --cc-cmd
> (see [PATCH] git-send-email: don't return undefined value in
> extract_valid_address()). We would report an error in both cases,
> as suggested by Junio.