From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:48 GMT Subject: Re: wishlist: git send-email improvement Message-ID: <7veijtz9kn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1268155306.4277.14.camel@localhost> Yann Droneaud writes: > Here's a little wishlist for send-email > > - Use From: field extracted from patch: > If there's no configuration for user.email and From: field is > different than default auto generated From: address, > git send-email should use the one in the patch as default. I cannot judge how sensible this change is; please justify the motivation by adding "it currently does _this_, which is not good for _such and such reasons_; instead" between the third and the fourth line. > - Use To: field extracted from patch > I've setup format-patch to add a default To: field with > format.headers="To: xxx@yyy". But git send-email did not use it and > ask for a To: value. > If there's no --to or sendmail.to, send-email should use To: value > extracted from patch and ask for user confirmation. With the recent addition of format.to that is cooking somewhere, I think this one is probably sensible.